“Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 2:9)
Those are not the words that I would want to hear. But these are the very words that the people of God heard. During the time of the kings, the people of God would fall into this pattern: turn to God, receive the blessings of obedience, ignore God and worship idols instead, find themselves in trouble, cry out to God and turn to God again.
In our text this week (Jeremiah 2:5-13), the prophet Jeremiah’s message from God is, enough is enough. This pattern is not acceptable, and you will have to face the charges that I set before you. In verse 13, Jeremiah says, “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
