May 26th

May 26th -- Jeremiah 38:1-13 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2038:1-13&version=NLT)

Go read. I am no longer typing summaries (unless I randomly get the urge to) because they take too long and stuff.

So Jeremiah, after already being thrown in prison, gets thrown in a cistern ( a big hole lined with rocks that would be used to collect rainwater). He could have died numerous ways done there  - not one being in the slightest a nice way to die. Why was he down there? For doing what God asked. So don't think that doing what God asks will always be pleasant, and will never threaten to destroy you (literally or metaphorically). Doing what God's telling us may put us in a sticky place (literally, like Jeremiah in the mud, or again just metaphorically). HOWEVER, God will honor us for obeying Him, and (almost) always pull us out of that place. I mean, somebody happened to hear about Jeremiah's condition, and the king (who had just condemned him to that) had him rescued. Yes, he was put back in prison, but it was better than dying in a cistern. God was looking out for Him. God's always looking out for us. Yes, sometimes we feel like we're out of the fire and just back into the frying pan (after we went from the frying pan into the fire), but that's still improvement. Also, well, when you look at the fact that we deserve literal eternal fire, then jail doesn't seem so bad anymore. I'm not trying to make light of bad situations, merely pointing out that God has had our backs since before we even fell. We need to honestly remember that all the time.

That's all! God bless! Shalom!