BBD 03.26.02 Slipping and Sliding (Classic)
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Classic from 2002
The Burning Bush Devotional
26 March 2021
Slipping and Sliding
For the
land is full of adulterers; for because of a curse the land mourns. The
pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil,
and their might is not right. ‘For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in
My house I have found their wickedness,’ says the Lord. ‘Therefore their way
shall be to them like slippery ways; in the darkness they shall be driven on
and fall in them; for I will bring disaster on them, the year of their
punishment,’ says the Lord. - Jeremiah 23:10-11.
Soon
embassy guards may have a new non-lethal weapon that will delay or even prevent
mob attacks from succeeding. Not only can the military make use of this new
weapon but there are potentially many civilian police applications as
well. San Antonio’s Southwest Research Institute has developed what they call the “banana peel in a can.” It is a whitish gel that can be applied through spraying and is
super-slippery. It is intended for use by the Marine Corps to prevent the
overrun of embassies or military bases by unruly mobs.
The
substance has been tested by volunteers trying to walk across a lawn sprayed
with the “banana peel,” and if they had not been in safety harnesses many of them
might have received broken bones as a result of the violent slipping and
sliding.
Jeremiah
prophesies concerning the judgment of God against those prophets and priests
who have so wickedly lived their lives in opposition to God’s will. They think
that they are safe but just when they are convinced that nothing will harm
them, they will slip and in the darkness will be unable to break their fall.
Many who live in immorality believe nothing can harm them, and they laugh at
God. But there will come a time of reckoning, and it may very well be at a time
least expected. They will slip without a safety harness and their destruction
is assured.
Compare
the prophecy of Jeremiah to the words of King David, who says “For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? God
is my strength and power, and He makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like
the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. He teaches my hands to make
war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have also given me the
shield of Your salvation; your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my
path under me; so my feet did not slip (2 Samuel 22:32-37).”
Oh,
what comfort, what peace we have to be shielded by the Lord. What a great
safety harness is our salvation, which keeps our feet from slipping. Let us
draw even closer to our God where we will find safety in the midst of turmoil just
as did King David.
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