The Rabbi

Jeremiah, how do you sit and suffer, knowing the message of the truth, proclaiming the truth and seeing they cannot hear you? How do you not lose hear with a heartless people? They remember not their God; how many times do we act out of neglect of remembrance as well? How many times do we require that He prove Himself faithful before we will finally obey? Each time we stray, He is the hand that strikes us, but the hand that comforts us when we turn back. Why will we not listen? Do you understand the coldness of human hearts in the face of the irresistible, shining, goodness of God’s glory?

We, the people to whom you speak today are attacked without and within. Our perversity of the truth within the walls of God’s house, within the context of the members of His family that is what endangers us most. We turn on our brothers and believer against believer. Here in this corner of our God’s house, we too eat one another. We divide on the petty, we do not love one another, so surely, we do not truly love Yahweh. His name falls on deaf ears because we have forgotten what it is to love Him, we’ve forgotten who we are because we no longer see who He is. We have lost sight, because we desired to sin and worship, and not able to do both, we chose to worship the sin.
How can God stand to entrust His Holy Name to a people who always threaten His reputation, forcing Him to act in compensation. Our sacrifices are still heartless… empty words, empty actions. We can’t love, so our obedience is meaningless. So the consequence for our hard hearts will be worse then the death, occupation, torment, of captivity? How do you still love the dregs, or is your love for Him that compels you to love us?