Who Are These Wicked People Who Are Totally Worthless?

Jeremiah 13:10
This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

WOW….How careful we should be to listen to God’s voice as He speaks through the Holy Spirit to our spirit to our mind (of course, always in agreement with the written word) or as He speaks directly from the Scripture as we open the pages of our Bible. God calls those who refuse to listen to His words, wicked. And look what God says about their refusal to listen. He calls it stubbornness of heart and He says it leads to going after, serving and bowing down to other gods. The result is they are left to become totally worthless. May we as Disciples of Christ be quick to listen and respond to the words of the one and only infinite, majestic, omniscient, omnipotent God of the universe! Then, and only then, we will not become worthless to the Kingdom of God and it’s advancement upon this earth!

More on “Desires”

Psalm 38:9
“Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.”

We need strong, passionate desires. It is desire that fuels us from complacency to doing something productive and meaningful in our lives. But we must question where our desires come from. Most times our desires are linked to thoughts we have meditated on. This is a key point in determining whether our desires are godly or ungodly. When we play a thought over and over on our mind, considering it in every way, either a good or destructive power is released into our lives. What type of power is dependent on whether the thought that has now become a passionate desire was a godly or ungodly one, thus, resulting in a godly or ungodly passion.

We should, therefore, examine our desires by asking where they come from. Are they a result of thoughts flowing from our natural evil heart, evil spirits, or God? Scripture tells us that the heart of man is evil and that we cannot even know our own heart. We naturally have an inclination to want for ourselves and ourselves above all else. In other words, our natural desires are selfish and self glorifying.  These desires and those born from a thought planted by evil spirits who possess the airways, always lead to destruction.  They lead us away from God.  Whereas meditating upon God’s thoughts and allowing those to take root as our heart’s desires, releases a power that transforms our lives from the inside out into the image of Christ.