Seeker

Why do I avoid the book of Jeremiah the prophet? Too gloomy? Too pessimistic? Well you wouldn't be jumping for joy if you'd been treated like Jeremiah. Perhaps you have. I haven't. Or if you'd been given the message of coming judgement that pressed so heavily on Jeremiah's heart. Or you felt the grief he felt for his people. Here's some of how he expressed it: "O that my head were a spring of water,   and my eyes a fountain of tears,   so that I might weep day and night   for the slain of my poor people!"    Jeremiah 9.1 Rembrandt. Prophet Jermiah weeping over the destruction of Jerusalem If you read more of that section, it becomes clear that this deep grief belongs to God. It's not only Jeremiah who suffered when, as he prophesied, he saw the destruction coming on his people, as a result of their unfaithfulness. It is God. Where is God when his warnings are ignored? Sitting at the bottom of the well grieving with Jeremiah. Does