Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Over and over again, through these chapters, the Lord announces his discipline against his people, but it is always gracious discipline. ...

Ezekiel 16 is that wonderful chapter in which the Lord reminds his people about who they are and what he has done for them.  On the day...

Chapter 12 relates the story of Ezekiel, each day, packing up a bag for exile and leaving the city, thus picturing what was to come for...

These chapters depict the visions of Ezekiel concerning the temple in Jerusalem, the abominations committed there by the people, and the...

"I saw visions of God" (1:1).  The translation could also be "visions from God," but the visions that follow seem to depict the glory and...

The closing chapters of Jeremiah, similar to chapters in other prophets, single out the nations, one by one, and pronounce judgment on...

Upon taking the captives into exile, Nebuchadnezzar left Gedaliah in charge in Jerusalem, serving as governor.  The remaining Israelites...

The Chronicler of Israel closed his report of these events:  “The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his...

The Lord instructed Jeremiah to write on a scroll words that called the people back to God.  Now, Jeremiah had been forbidden from going...

“This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I...

“In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord” (26:1).  And what was that...

“This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the...

Previously, I noted some of the hardships Jeremiah faced:  “The people stoned him, they threw him into a dry cistern and left him there...

There are hard jobs.  There are scary jobs.  There are dangerous jobs.  There are jobs to be completed in anonymity and without and words...

The Lord placed Jeremiah at the gate of the temple and had him proclaim, “Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these...