11:6,7
The promise was based on the covenant. For year after year the people had been violating the covenant. Jeremiah is told to go into the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem telling the people to obey the covenant. We have a longing for life to be good, there is an innate feeling that life should be good, and up to a point we are right. But we forget that we need to trust God, to obey Him for this to be so. Our reaction is to blame God with cries such as “why does God allow this?”. But it is we who are to blame. The ones who need to change are us, not God. With Israel God had warned them time and time again, but they never listened.
11:8
“But they did not listen or pay attention; instead they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts”. Malcolm Muggeridge said “The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” In Leviticus and Deuteronomy God gave them promises if they obeyed, curses if they did not. Curse means God’s judgement on man’s sin. They did not obey, so they have received the curses.
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