MAY 26

Jeremiah 15:15-16
Memorise Proverbs 11:2
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.”

After you spend a certain amount of time in church, there would be those few passages that would be mentioned again and again, and they would quickly become very familiar to you. Many of them are quite straightforward and simple to understand, and they would be what we regard as ‘easy’ passages. Though they are indeed very wonderful and precious verses, yet because of familiarity, we seldom think too much upon them - we don’t think that verses like these need too much meditation as we already understand them.

But we should stop and ask - do we really understand everything that is to know about in the Bible?

Jeremiah was a prophet specifically called by the LORD to an awesome and difficult task to tell of the ruin of his beloved nation. This was a message that was not well received by the stiff-necked people. God spoke to Jeremiah directly, who was undoubtedly also spiritually knowledgeable as the voice of God to the people; yet what was Jeremiah’s attitude to the Word of God?

He spoke of how he found the words of God, and carefully chewed on them and ingested them. As a result he found them to be the joy of his heart! Although the task set before him was immense and onerous, he never blamed God but instead took refuge in the familiar yet wonderfully rich Words of God.

True, there are passages and books in the Bible that are more readily understandable. But do not take God’s Word for granted or lack faith in the ability of familiar passages to reveal spiritual insights to you again and again. Is the knowledge of God exhaustible? Can we come to a complete knowledge of God? If you do not think you are hungry, would you want to eat and hence be filled? To think of a passage as easy is to begin to be filled with pride and to become complacent.

Thought: David and Jeremiah meditated upon the Word constantly. How much more so should we?
Prayer: Lord, help me to continually find new truths even in familiar passages.