Jeremiah 28:1-17
‘Listen,
Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people
trust in a lie’ (Jeremiah 28:15). Lord, there is such a difference
between those who wait on You for Your strength and those who rush ahead
in their own strength! Your Word warns us against trying to serve You
in our own strength: ‘Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young
men shall fall exhausted’. If we are to be true servants of the Lord, we
must learn to wait upon the Lord and receive His strength: ‘Those who
wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength’. What a difference the
strength of the Lord makes - ‘They shall mount up with wings like
eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint’
(Isaiah 40:30-31)! Teach us to exchange our weakness for Your strength -
then we will truly be ‘sent’ by You and will speak Your truth.
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