Jeremiah 13:12-14
“You
shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel,
“Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we
not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’ Then you
shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill with
drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on
David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons
together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have
compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”
It
all begins with a couple; a man and a woman that enters into a marriage
covenant and they have children and the Scriptures are clear that they
are to teach and discipline their children in the ways of the Lord.
Some do, but history tells us that most do not, and it is the dad who
drops the ball and believes the lie that they are wise enough to find
their own truth. Yet that same dad will teach that child the dangers of
going into the deep water before learning to swim or not to play with
fire because it can bring harm to the child and others.
Yesterday,
I watched a video on the need for giving a child the “N” vitamin and
being a person who is a partaker of vitamins I was wondering how I
missed that one. Vitamin “N” is the “NO” vitamin, no that is not okay
for you, no you cannot have that at this time in your life, no but if
you want it earn the money to buy it, we do not have funds for that.
American
children have a vast deficiency of vitamin “N” and are some of the
unhappiest, mean spirited children who have never earned money or worked
for anything and they have a controlling mindset of we deserve with no
regards for anyone else. And what does that look like when the vitamin
“N” child graduates from college and goes out into the world they are
not equipped for; anger, frustration, and defeat? Many will turn to
drugs and others to sex or become alcoholics and what does that nation
experience?
In
that, they have little or a wrong understanding of God, they see Him
not as a Father who gave His Son, His only Son to redeem them and buy
them out of a life controlled by sin. But as one they disdain because
they see Him as that Vitamin “N” they were not exposed to and hate that
word.
The
jars are a metaphor in the Scripture above and the meaning was the
people were the jars that should be filled with wine. Everyone from the
leaders to the poorest would be filled with drunkenness, for they like
our children wanted not one thing to do with the vitamin “N”. They
wanted to be the captain of their own ship, they did not want a moral
authority, and God got a gut full of them and announced that He was
going to smash these jars.
My dad always said, “A word to the wise is sufficient”!
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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