5:23
“But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts”. Our first reaction to problems is usually to blame someone else, or to blame God. We usually do far better to look first to ourselves, to look to our hearts. The people of Judah and Israel had stubborn and rebellious hearts and had turned away from God and His ways. That was the root cause of all their problems. This nation has turned aside from God and His ways. We even consider God’s ways to be hateful! We should not be surprised if this has dire consequences for us.
5:24,25
Instead of going their own way, the people should have resolved to fear the Lord. If we find ourselves lost then we should resolve to fear the Lord. How do we do this? There are many aspects to this. First, we should worship Him, we should praise Him. We should seek to live our lives according to His ways. There will be somethings that we do that we should resolve to stop doing. There will be positive things that we can do, we should do them. It may seem that these things have no immediate bearing on our problems, but we need to remember that it is the Lord who gives the autumn and spring rains. He is our provider and our protector. When we trust in the Lord, when we look to Him things will start to work out better. When we don’t do this, it is our wrongdoings and our sins that deprive us of the good things.
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