In a day of hardship

Remember nothing is too hard for God | Mindy Belz

Gustave Doré

Poor Baruch. A secretary's work is often the thankless, grubby sort, especially when scribing for a prophet of doom. The scripture tells us that Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord that He had spoken to him. And they were not pretty.

Seventy years of captivity in Babylon. God setting his face against Jerusalem "for harm and not for good." The Babylonians burning the city with fire. The king of Babylon ("my servant," the Lord calls him) subjecting God's people to "a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation" (Jeremiah 25:9).

How should God's people respond? "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live" (27:12). Submit to your enemies—serve them!—is a message that goes against our American pride. We miss God's long-term strategy in the rush to be right, right now.

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