JEREMIAH 8:5 “Why then has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.” Robert Robinson was saved out of a tempestuous life of sin. Shortly after that, at the age of 23, Robinson wrote the hymn “Come, Thou Fount.” Sometime...
JEREMIAH 7:23 “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'” A young son of a missionary couple...
JEREMIAH 6:14 “They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, Peace!’ when there is no peace.” On Wake Island in 1950, President Truman said to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, “I want only three words as my epitaph–‘He Brought Peace.'” That was certainly a worthy and noble ambition,...
JEREMIAH 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end? Everything that begins also ends. Beautiful buildings are erected, but eventually they are torn down. Seeds sprout and grow into...
JEREMIAH 3:4 “Will you not from this time cry to Me, ‘My father, You are the guide of my youth?'” The life of Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most tragic of all American writers. Raised by foster parents who loved him deeply, he was provided with an education...
JEREMIAH 1:4-5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Those who know their geography well might know that the longest place...
ISAIAH 66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. A mother said that her little girl, who was terrified of the dark, slept at night in a crib beside her bed. Often the mother had been wakened during the...
ISAIAH 65:24 It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. Dr. Helen Roseveare, a missionary to Africa, told about a mother who died at the mission station after giving birth to a premature baby. An incubator was...
ISAIAH 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. Great Britain’s King George V was to give the opening address at a special disarmament conference with the speech relayed by radio to the...
ISAIAH 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” A young boy at the dinner table asked, “Dad,...