Be Still And Know

Jeremiah 13:16 'Give glory to the Lord your God before it is too late. Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you, causing you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains. For then, when you look for light, you will find only terrible darkness and gloom.' It may just be me, but I suspect that we are all good at putting things off. It may be filling in our tax returns, making it right with an aggrieved neighbour or buying Christmas presents, but I would guess that there are some things that we love to delay. We tell ourselves that have other, far more important things to do but, eventually, we can no longer delay. Jeremiah was desperately concerned that the people of Israel were putting off the most important thing of all – following the Lord. They were happy with the way things were and had no intention of changing. And the sad truth is that they never did change. Eventually, judgement fell upon them in the form of an invasion from the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. The apostle Paul had exact