August 9th

Jeremiah 49:

 ¹² This is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it. ¹³ I swear by myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse,^[b] an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”


This gets to a hard truth.   There were many faithful people that had to endure this punishment of going into exile.  In fact, if I understand the scriptures correctly, most of the people that went were the most faithful.  In that way God protected them to bring them back after 70 years.  Those left behind were wiped out.  It's a hard truth that sometimes all of us have to endure the Lord's discipline, but we must remember that we are the clay and He is the potter.