FAITH CAPSULE: Wickedness is evil and non-stop but continually.
Jeremiah 7
The wickedness under heaven is not new and is not temporary, but ongoing until the final judgment of God.
Genesis 6:5 record the response word of God about the wickedness, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Wickedness is evil and non-stop but continually.
The judgment of God against wickedness will come at His appointed time.
Is wickedness your way of life?
Are you comfortable in doing wickedness knowing that you are getting away with it?
Wickedness testifies to the lack of fear before God.
Mark it, God is not asleep over the wickedness on earth.
Ecclesiastes 8: 11-13 speaks loud to the wicked ones, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
How is your way before God?
The way engaged will identify wicked or not wicked before God.
The way to move forward is in the word of God, while the way backward is in the wicked world of man.
With you, which way is yours?
Are you going by the dictates of your heart or by the living word of the living God?
Going by the dictates of the heart of man can be of the world.
The way of the world is the way that seems right to man, not the way of God. Proverbs 14:12 makes us realize that “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
The way that seems right to man comes from the dictates of the evil heart.
Engaging the way that seems right is the wrong way and will not go forward but backward.
The way that seems right is always a way of assumption with no certainty to lead right.
The possibility of going back is rooted in the dictates of the heart.
God speaks to Jeremiah about the disobedience of the Israelites in Jeremiah 7:21-24, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”
Evil heart belongs to wicked.
Prayer for today: Ask that God take charge of your way.