I just read the first two chapters of Jeremiah tonight and realized how little my view of sin and, in turn, Jesus is. Throughout the overtone of the whole dialogue, it should be obvious to any reader that God is a personal, emotional being. He is sad, angry, confused and frustrated over the inconsistent and unfaithful hearts of his people. They have the ridiculous ideology to turn away from loving and delighting in God in order to pursue worthless things. That's the word God repeats again and again. Worthless. It even made them become worthless. The hard part is to realize that I have the same ridiculous tendencies, whether I always realize it or not. It's sickening how easily I can forget that God is a person, my Father, my best friend, and settle to be happy with all the stuff I can get from him. What am I talking about specifically? One thing, for example, is the realization I had a few days ago that the only time I tend to talk with God is when I have absolutely nothing else to do and no one else to talk with. I've been doing that instead of making it my joy and my business to remember God. Is that how to treat your best friend, the one you enjoy the most?
Maybe it's not that big of a deal when I do that, though, right? No, no, NO! That gets to the very heart of why Jesus came to die. He, the unique Son of God, always at the Father's right hand, his best friend, had to die, to be forsaken, in order to make my twisted heart clean. That is an enormous price to pay for something that is not that big of a deal.
Thank you God for that reminder from Jeremiah.
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