Jeremiah 1-2: Bitterly and Utterly Disappointed

You will be disappointed by Egypt
   as you were by Assyria.
You will also leave that place
   with your hands on your head,
for the LORD has rejected those you trust;
   you will not be helped by them. - Jer. 2:36-37 NIV

Over and over again, God tells us the same thing through the voice of his prophets, and over and over again, we ignore them and go on our merry way.  These words ring especially true.  "You will be disappointed."  Not, "You will be slaughtered, "you will be annihilated", or even "you will be abandoned."  No, the result of chasing after any and all other means of escape is that we will be disappointed.  Whatever we're casting about for, looking to for salvation, will just be another bitter disappointment.  Nothing else will save us.  We can't trust another country, another leader, another job, another boss, another doctor, another medicine, another church, another pastor.  Nothing, no place, no one, is ever going to give us what we need.  We may get what we want, but we will not get what we need and that achy empty void we are trying to fill will not go away.  The nagging fear we carry around will not be erased.   Another this, another that...it doesn't matter what it is, if we're not looking to God for our every answer we will be bitterly and utterly disappointed.

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