the summer has ended,
and we are not saved.” - Jer. 8:20 NIV
What final and frightening words: "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved." They contrast sharply with a time of bounty, when the abundant crops have been gathered in and there is plenty to see one through whatever winter lies ahead. The people of Jeremiah's time could not see what was on the horizon. They thought they could do whatever they pleased and then go stand in the sanctuary and proclaim they were safe.
Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know
the requirements of the LORD. - Jer 9:7 NIV
It's one thing for the ungodly, to trust in their own devices, in their wealth, their cunning, their relationships to save them, but it's another thing entirely for God's people to be blissfully unaware of the surrounding season. Is the harvest past?
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