In Ourselves, There Is Sin. In The Lord, There Is Salvation.

Jeremiah 14:1-22
In ourselves, there is sin- ‘O Lord... we have sinned against You’. In the Lord, there is salvation- ‘O Lord our God... our hope is in You’(20,22). In the Lord, there is no sin - ‘You are too pure to look on evil’(Habakkuk 1:13). In ourselves , there is no salvation. We are ‘spiritually dead because of our disobedience and sins’. We need to be ‘made alive’. How can this happen? It is not something we can do for ourselves. The new birth can only be received as a gift from God. We must stop trying to save ourselves. It cannot be done. Salvation cannot be earned. It must be received as a gift from God. It must be received by ‘faith’. We must look away from ourselves to Christ. In Christ, we see ‘God’s great love for us’. Through receiving Christ as Saviour, we are ‘born of God’(Ephesians 2:1,4-5,8; John 1:12-13).

Jeremiah 15:1-21
Some of our problems come from outside of ourselves. Other people cause problems for us - ‘This people will fight against you’(20). Some of our problems come from within our own hearts. Our own sins cause problems for us - ‘Put to death what is earthly in you...’(Colossians 3:5). There are ‘fightings and fears within’. There are ‘fightings and fears without’. We are ‘tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt’. Tell the Lord all about it. Tell Him how it really is. ‘Just as I am’- This is how we must come to the Lord. Our ‘fightings and fears’ do not simply disappear the moment we pray, ‘O Lamb of God, I come’(Church Hymnary, 79). We do, however, have God’s promise: ‘They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you’(20). He will lead us in the way of victory (Colossians 2:8-10).
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