"This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing."
Jeremiah 13:10
So, before these verses God had Jeremiah go buy a really nice linen girdle (a sash or low belt in those days), wear it for a while, and then he had him go hide it in a cave. When he went to retrieve it, it was ruined. Then God explains that this is the same way he is going to ruin the pride of his people. I like the way that the Lord taught Jeremiah by giving him a representation of what he meant, so that people could have a visual aid to their understanding of what the prophet was saying. Perhaps the idea that, just as getting a gift from the Lord and then neglecting it can ruin the gift, we can also destroy ourselves and our relationship with God by turning elsewhere.
Today, let's listen to God and sustain that relationship rather than letting it, or ourselves, decay as Jeremiah's girdle did.
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