A Thought

“If you will return, O Israel”, says the Lord, “return to Me; and if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not be moved.  And you shall swear, ‘The Lord lives,’ in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.”  Jeremiah 4:1-2

According to research psychologist Larry Rosen, multi-tasking is a myth.  We only think we are successfully multi-tasking because we are doing several things at one time, but efficiency is taking a major hit because we are doing no one thing as well as it needs to be done.  As it is often said: if it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well.

The Lord is speaking to His beloved through the prophet Jeremiah, and it would appear Israel is doing some multi-tasking of its own by trying to have its cake and eat it, too.  They, like we, are trying to take all the things of life that appear to promise pleasure and prosperity, but they, like we, are being warned that anything outside of our Lord is fleeting at best.  They, like we, may think they can have the world AND the Lord; but the prophet is reminding them that nothing can have real meaning if we do not first focus on the Lord and our place in Him and His Covenant.

Let us return to the Lord with our whole heart and discover that the only thing worth doing right is following Him.  We cannot have the Covenant of the Lord AND the false promises of the evil one or the world that does not know our Lord.

Blessings,

Michael