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Jeremiah 12 – Advice for Weak Christians
Advice for weak Christians who think they are strong: You have a lot of company because self-delusion is the easiest lie to believe. Your company even includes the illustrious Jeremiah the prophet. Not normally would we think of Jeremiah being weak; but notice how God describes Jeremiah after one of his complaints: “If you have raced with runners and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?” (Jeremiah 12:5 (HCSB)). So who is the weak Christian who thinks they are strong? Every one of us who gets spiritually tired and beaten by today’s evil competition. We won’t see how strong we are – or are not, and need to be – until this peaceful land of ours becomes antagonistic to Christians. We are already seeing races being won by Satan’s runners. Soon Satan will have us running against his horses. The advice God gives Jeremiah is not welcomed but is needed. We can’t see how strong we need to be until we first are willing to see how weak we have been. Only then can we through God become strong.
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