LEARN FROM THE BIRDS OF THE AIR
“Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons; ... But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.“ (Jeremiah 8: 7)
Five times in this passage we find the words “turn away” and “return.” (Jeremiah 8: 4-5) The people of Israel had perpetual backsliding. They clung to deceit and refused to return to the Lord. In verse 7, Jeremiah cites the example of the birds of the heavens here. He condemned the shameful activities of the people and said that they had less wisdom than birds, not endued with reason and understanding.
He said that they were more foolish than cranes, swallows and storks. It might sound that it was a severe reproof, but it was necessary to reprehend them for they became exceedingly hardened in their vices. The storks know the time in which they have to migrate from one country to another. They leave a cold country and seek a warmer climate that they may escape the severity of winter. And they afterwards know the time in which they have to return. So also the swallows which return every year to their warm home. They know the days. They observe the times. They have an instinctive, built-in kind of a little guidance computer system! But here are people, infinitely wiser than the birds and animals, yet disobeying the inner conscience that God had placed in each one of them. The Lord said, “If the birds of the air so observe their seasons, how is it that my people do not consider my judgment.” They say, “We are wise for we have the Law of the Lord.” What was the use of having God’s Law in their hands, if they were not obeying it? They might as well have been without the Law, unless they made better use of it.
Dear friends, let us not deceive ourselves. Let us not keep on deliberately sinning against God, knowing well His commandments. Let us repent and return to the Lord before His wrath falls upon us.PRAYER: Dear Lord, You have given me Your Law in my hands - Your precepts and commandments. You have given me conscience to know the good and the evil. Yet I take it for granted and sin against You. As You convict me now, I confess my sin, repent and turn toward You. Forgive me. Amen.
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