"They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace." -Jeremiah 8:11
God's people have a mighty gash in their side. Sin is protruding from the wound of God's Beloved. Does the Church today see the sin-wound, wrap it with a dressing, and declare the wound as "minor," sending a child of God on his or her way only to die later from internal bleeding? By grace, let us not be like God's people during Jeremiah's day. He has redeemed us; let us not turn from His loving embrace. But when we do, when a member of our Body shifts his focus to the created, let us not say, "Peace! This is nothing serious!"
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