jeremiah 26-29

There is a line in the mid-credit scene of “Avengers” where one character tells the big bad villain, “that to challenge Earth is to court death”. The daily walk devotional uses this same line about courting death to describe Jeremiah’s message to the people of Judah who were already in exile and telling them to not rebel against it. In fact I would say that the entire message of Jeremiah is to call the people from “courting death” in their disobedience to God and repent and to “court life”. Which would be more joyful and happy, to court death or court life? To court death as child of God is to disobey Him, to not worship Him, to not place Him first in life, to not love His church, to not put on God-like character traits, and to not put sin to death in life. To not do any of those things just listed is to “court death” eternally speaking and to not have assurance of your eternal fate. I do not know about you but I do not want to court death. I would much rather walk in the light and court life. That means I need to listen to Jeremiah and repent of worshipping false idols and place God and all that He is and all that He loves, first in my life.