Why do you protest your punishment—this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great. “But all who devour you will be devoured, and all your enemies will be sent into exile. All who plunder you will be plundered, and all who attack you will be attacked. I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the LORD. “For you are called an outcast—‘Jerusalem for whom no one cares.’” [Jeremiah 30.15-17]
You know, when we take medicine instead of repenting, are we not protesting our punishment?
If we really believed the Bible and God's love AND justice, life would be much less complicated: when things go wrong, we would simply repent, and when things go right, we would simply rejoice.
However, when things go wrong, we protest it with medicine, insurance, self-help, strategy, education, and politics. Sometimes we even protest it verbally: "God, what did YOU do wrong?" (...that I need to fix?).
Father, forgive me for complicating everything. May I be found simplistic in my understanding of Your Word as it relates to my life in good and bad, blessings and curses, and right and wrong. I want to repent when things go badly and rejoice when they do not.
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