“…for unto this day they drink none, but obey
their father’s commandment: but ye hearkened not unto me.” Jeremiah 35:14
Humility
and contentment are always the best policy, and men's surest protection. Rechab, the father of the Rechabites, charged
his posterity not to drink wine. He also appointed them to dwell in tents: teaching
them not to think of settling anywhere in this world knowing it was not there
home. Jonadab, his son, was unwilling to go against his father’s commandments
and partake of the wine offered them.
Interesting and yet sad, that man can be more loyal to man and the world
than he can the word and will of God. The
Rechabites were more concerned with running into unlawful pleasures; they denied
themselves even lawful delights… Paul states: “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are
lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any” (1 Cor 6:12). Our
actions toward living should not be approached in a manner of what is simply lawful
or appealing to us, but what is both spiritually and physically healthy for us.
Jeremiah pleaded on behalf of God for the Israelite’s to glean such a truth, unfortunately
for Israel and many Christians today their emphasis is geared towards their own
desires, not God’s!
There
is more power in one act of obedience, than a hundred sermons.
HSAY…Todd
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