‘I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live!’ (Jeremiah 27:12)
The proud Israelites would have thought that Jeremiah was mad. Yes, the Babylonians were much greater than they, but didn’t they have God? What about all those famous victories in the past? Why should they just surrender and bend their necks to the Babylonians when they could fight it, and surely win?
Well, firstly, God wasn’t on their side at this point. And secondly, it wasn’t His will that they should fight. Jeremiah speaks God’s will to them plainly – ‘bring your necks under the yoke of Babylon’.
Sometimes the will of God in our lives is the opposite of what we expect it to be, or sometimes it doesn’t really make sense to us. But we should always earnestly seek what His will is, otherwise we could be making grave mistakes.
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