Jeremiah was not a popular
prophet. He didn’t tell the people what they wanted to hear. He wasn’t
concerned with gaining their approval. He was determined to keep on
speaking God’s Word - whatever the people thought about him, said about
him or did to him. The first priority is faithfulness. We must not make
relevance the be-all and end-all. Relevance must be built on
faithfulness. The two are to be held together - faithfulness and
relevance. If we do not remain faithful to God’s Word, our words will be
irrelevant. They will not be God’s Word for the people. “Your Word is
truth” (John 17:17) - This must be at the heart of both our preaching
and our living.
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