Categories: journal
Date: 06 July 2010 06:02:06
This morning, I was reading (Jeremiah 12:14-17 / The Message):
God's Message: "Regarding all the bad neighbors who abused the land I gave to Israel as their inheritance: I'm going to pluck them out of their lands, and then pluck Judah out from among them. Once I've pulled the bad neighbors out, I will relent and take them tenderly to my heart and put them back where they belong, put each of them back in their home country, on their family farms. Then if they will get serious about living my way and pray to me as well as they taught my people to pray to that god Baal, everything will go well for them. But if they won't listen, then I'll pull them out of their land by the roots and cart them off to the dump. Total destruction!" God's Decree.
I'm often wary of appropriating (God's) promises, especially when originally directed to the people of Israel, but this one is addressed to the bad neighbours, the outsiders. So I'm taking it personally, especially having recently gone through an experience of uprooting. I'm hoping that the cycle of change hasn't yet finished, and that, if I am to be in employment for the next ten years, it will mostly be in an environment less challenging than the present one ...