{"id":5541,"date":"2021-02-28T12:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2021-02-28T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T18:17:39","slug":"devotional-on-jeremiah-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-jeremiah-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Jeremiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1063px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VGlV9M0iI7I\/YDqP2tBsI7I\/AAAAAAABIzg\/kQcSZ-tcywA-bU1nhzuEHLSDalMHB0ZYACPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/mt%2Branier%2Bnational%2Bpark%2B-%2B%2B8-12-2009%2B4-51-30%2BPM.JPG\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1600\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2009 &#8211; Mt Ranier National Park, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nVisiting ICU<br \/>\nJeremiah 6: My people are broken &#8212; shattered! &#8212; and they put on band-aids!<br \/>\nTo be apart from God is serious business.  The solution isn\u2019t to turn over a new leaf or to try to be a nicer person.  Outside of God is death.  A doctor doesn\u2019t put a band-aid on a person who needs a heart transplant.  The treatment is major surgery by a skilled surgeon.  As a Christian I ought to understand this because I&#8217;ve been through the spiritual version of that process.  However, I tend to forget it.  Lost people aren&#8217;t simply making mistakes and facing a troublesome future.  Spiritually speaking they\u2019re in ICU with worse things yet to come.  Jeremiah realizes that the sins of his nation have brought them to the brink of absolute catastrophe.   I need to deal with those who are apart from God with the seriousness Jeremiah shows here.<br \/>\nTake Away: Lost people are really lost &#8212; condemned and without hope unless they allow the Lord to do a major, life changing work in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting ICU Jeremiah 6: My people are broken &#8212; shattered! &#8212; and they put on band-aids! To be apart from God is serious business. The solution isn\u2019t to turn over a new leaf or to try to be a nicer person. Outside of God is death. A doctor doesn\u2019t put a band-aid on a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1504,7],"tags":[132,243,763,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15122,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/15122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}