Daily Devotion

Most of us wouldn’t do anything evil to a child. We especially don’t want to do anything damaging to our own children. Imagine being put in a situation where your village is under siege and you’re starving. God tells the Jews this is going to happen to them, and they will eat their own kids (19:9). Eating your children was part of the original curse for disobedience when God gave out the blessings and cursings (Leviticus 26:29). When we look at history, we see this actually happens when the Babylonians invade in 586 b.c. And again, to Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 a.d. I have to believe that those who did this were already evil people and bad parents. Then I think about how many care so little for their babies that they don’t even let them be born. Or those we see on tv that harm their own kids physically, verbally and emotionally. All this makes me want to hug my children and let them know I love them.

Pastor Roger Dean

Jeremiah 17-21