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Jer 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Jer 37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jer 37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jer 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jer 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

A man brought a false testimony against Jeremiah. And God let the man’s lies cause harm and punishment to Jeremiah. He was smote and then thrown into a prison. And if we look at this through our eyes, and a human view, this seems like a bad thing.


But if we look at it through God’s eyes, or through His eyes as best we can, it seems to look a little different. Jeremiah gets to speak directly to the king about what God has told him, and eventually does end up back in prison, but he ends up being fed for as long as there is food in the city.


Humans tend to see a man doing what the Lord told him to do, only to suffer. Change your point of view, and it’s a man who had food provided every day for him, and got to preach to some very important people.

And I was guilty of this for a long time. I always saw the gloom and doom side of everything. But when we realize how much God has already given us, and how much He loves us, any situation seems a good situation to be in.

Jer 38:2 Así ha dicho Jehová: El que se quedare en esta ciudad morirá á cuchillo, ó de hambre, ó de pestilencia; mas el que saliere á los Caldeos vivirá, pues su vida le será por despojo, y vivirá.

No tiene mucho sentido que la persona que salga con los Caldeos viviría, pero es la verdad. A nosotros, parecería que los Caldeos mataran a todos. Pero Dios sabe mejor que nosotros. Y aunque pensamos que situaciones en nuestras vidas traerán cosas malas, Dios puede usarlas para ayudar y mejorarnos.

Y seguir a Dios cuando el futuro no parece bien es de verdad fe.


Pray for Spain. Pray that the Lord would raise up missionaries and native Spaniards to take the gospel to the millions of lost souls in Spain.