Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you
return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is
precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn
to you, but you shall not turn to them.
Poor
Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants
of God, and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the truth.
The word
which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his
Lord. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the Lord would
continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men,
and perform the Lord's winnowing work upon the professors of his day, and then
the Lord gave him this word, "Thou shalt be as my mouth."
What an
honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For God to speak
by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak it
with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those who
receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their peril. Our lips shall
feed many. We shall arouse the sleeping and call the dead to life.
O dear
reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our Lord.
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