My quiet time:
You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction.
So the word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long.But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.- Jeremiah 20. 7-9
Photo above by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash.
People just want to hear positive and good things from you. Even church people. If you say something about God's judgments and condemnation in the bible, they hate it and tell you you're judgmental and too negative.
But sometimes you have to declare what God shows you in His Word, especially about sin and repentance. And Yet, doing so brings you insult and reproach.
Even your brothers, members of your own family, have turned against you. They plot and raise complaints against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak. [Jeremiah 12.6]
"Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer. [Jeremiah 9.4]
