A SHORT EXHORTATION
Theme- ...God, you "Deceived" me -Prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah accused God of deceiving him, yes, you read right. No he did not, you might say, o yes he sure did ЁЯЩЖЁЯП╜тАНтЩВя╕ПЁЯШ▒
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Jeremiah 20:7a KJV
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived...
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Incidentally, he was in the "WILL OF GOD" doing exactly what God told him to do. He was speaking the mind of God, yet, he was arrested, thoroughly lashed and thrown in solitary confinement.
"What's going on here? " he asked.
"This can't be happening to me, I'm in the will of
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God for crying out loud" yada, yada, yada
How can a "whole Prophet" accuse God of deceiving him, we may ask. Well, he did.
Things were not going the way he thought they would. He had expected the hearers of God's message to be trembling with fear at the godly warning of
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impending doom he was dishing out.
He was largely frustrated and disappointed. "Lord, this must be a joke, and if it is, it ain't funny at all..."
You see, when one is in this "precarious state," all manner of stuffs may begin to manifest. While some will pray for strength
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to go on to the end, others may be nagging and complaining, and sadly, many fall into the latter category.
Well, we must understand that even in the will of God, unpleasant things do happen.
Even in the will of God, we can grow weary, tired, disappointed, discouraged,