Following the compass
This week's verses are Jeremiah 8:7-8 : Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord , require of them. How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord ”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean. These verses are God's word for the prophet Jeremiah, explaining what was about to happen to unbelieving Israel. He says that even animals do a better job of following the lifestyle God has for them than Israel did. That's pretty harsh! I recently visited a science museum where they had an exhibit showing that some birds have a mechanism in their brain that uses quantum physics to help them navigate. So God basically engineered something into the birds themselves to help them to survive. In the same way that birds have an instinct to migrate when it is time, we have a ...