Jeremiah 7:1-8:3
‘Stop
believing these deceitful words, “We are safe! This is the temple of
the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!”’ (Jeremiah
4:4). Help us, Lord, never to allow the place of worship to become more
important than the Person we worship. We worship You, Lord. May we
not talk a lot about ‘the Church’ – and never speak of Christ! May we
not become more concerned about ‘the Church’ looking good than we are
about what You, Lord, see when You ‘look at the heart’ (1 Samuel 16:7)!
Deliver us, Lord, from self-centred talk – ‘I love my Church. I never
miss my Church. I always support my Church’. Help us to see that
there’s a great deal of ‘I’ in this kind of talk – but Christ is
conspicuous by His absence! May there be less ‘Look at what I have done
for my Church’ and more ‘It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me’ (Galatians 2:20).
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