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What a Good Father Does

Jeremiah 32:27

The city was surrounded. Babylon’s army had been camped outside Jerusalem’s walls for months, and everyone inside knew it was only a matter of time. That’s when God told Jeremiah to do something that must have seemed completely insane: buy a piece of land.

Not just any land. Land in the path of the very army closing in. Jeremiah paid good money for a field in Benjamin, signed the deed, sealed it in a clay jar, and handed it over. His reason was simple. God said that one day, people would buy and sell land in Israel again. Life would return. Restoration was coming. The purchase was a sign of faith in a future only God could see.

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A Love That Never Lets Go

Jeremiah 31:3

There is a thought that creeps in on most of us at some point, usually late at night or in the quiet after a hard week. The thought that maybe we have gone too far this time. That we have wandered too long, or failed too often, and that somewhere along the way, God quietly stopped looking for us.

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What Voice Are You Listening To?

Jeremiah 26:1-3

There is something uncomfortable about a man who keeps saying the same thing no matter how you respond to him. You can ignore him, argue with him, threaten him, and he just keeps saying it. Jeremiah was that kind of man. Not because he was stubborn, but because the word he carried wasn’t his own.

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He Fills Heaven and Earth

(Jeremiah 23:23-24, ESV)

Most of us have said it at one time or another. The day gets full, the demands pile up, and somewhere in the middle of it all we mutter, “I wish there were two of me.” It’s a familiar feeling. We’re bound by where we are. We can only be in one place at a time, and the older we get, the more we feel the weight of that. There’s simply never enough of us to go around.

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When the Shepherds Fail

(Jeremiah 23:5–6)

There’s a particular kind of disappointment that comes from being misled by someone you trusted. Not betrayed by an enemy but misled by someone who was supposed to tell you the truth and didn’t.

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The Fire in His Bones

Jeremiah 20:9 (ESV)

A man I know spoke up at work about something he saw that wasn’t right. Not loudly. Not publicly at first. Just to the right people, quietly. What followed was professional isolation. Conversations that stopped when he entered a room. Opportunities that somehow went to others. The message was clear: keep your mouth shut, and this stops.

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The Heart You Can’t Trust

Jeremiah 17:9, ESV

Most of us have heard these words so many times we could finish the sentence before Jeremiah does. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9, ESV). It’s been preached so many times we almost don’t listen anymore. But here’s a fair question: do we actually understand what Jeremiah was saying?

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Can a Leopard Change Its Spots?

Jeremiah 13:23

There is a question tucked inside the book of Jeremiah that is easy to read past. It sounds almost like a riddle. “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?” (Jeremiah 13:23). Jeremiah was speaking to a people who had drifted so far from God that their rebellion had become second nature. They weren’t just breaking rules; they had broken their covenant, the deep, binding promise they had made with the Lord Himself. And the honest answer to the question was no. You can’t change what you’ve become.

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The Secret Nobody Wants to Hear

Jeremiah 7:23, ESV

Most of us have spent a good portion of our lives looking for something. Not always sure what it is, exactly, but something that would make us feel like we had finally arrived. The next job, the bigger house, the right car — maybe then we would be content. Maybe then we could breathe.

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