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#GeraldsDevotional
God’s Amazing Grace – Unending?

It is easy and it is our tendency to look at God as an all-loving God who loves everyone without measure. We can look at His grace as being never-ending and as our song says, truly amazing. But it is a mistake (and a common pitfall – see Galatians 5:21) for us to look only at

those things and to think that they give us a free ticket and unlimited time to do whatever we want. For the LORD is also the God of judgment and has appointed a day when judgment will come for those who have continued to take for granted His precocious gift. For those who

continue to call on His name outwardly, but inwardly continue to follow their own desires.

Such is the picture of today’s devotional scripture. It covers a time when this happened with God’s people in Judah. He had warned and waited, and warned and waited some more, but they

still refused to take Him seriously and they went about doing things the way they thought were best. Can you imagine that the LORD would tell His prophet to STOP praying for His nation? Yes, that day eventually came then as it will again soon. As it was then, so it is now. When

that day of judgment came, it did not mean that the LORD had completely given up and walked away from His elect. No, the day of judgment had come when things were going to get very difficult for them so that the remnant (those who would eventually truly bow their knee) would know

that He is the LORD. He was not giving up on them but things were about to get very difficult and hard lessons would have to be learned.

Can you imagine being Jeremiah and hearing these following words from the LORD? As He said way back in Genesis 6, He will not strive with men

always. Read these words and ponder.

10 Thus says the Lord to this people:

“Thus they have loved to wander; They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; He will remember their iniquity now, And punish their sins.”

11 Then the Lord said to me,

“Do not pray for this people, for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.” - Jeremiah 14:10-12

The Lord Will Not Relent
1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell

them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

“Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.”

3 “And I will appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the

Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4 I will hand them over to trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

- Jeremiah 15:1-4
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