Jeremiah

My favorite prophet in the Old Testament is Jeremiah. I have recently been studying the book of Jeremiah in the Bible, and there are many things that we can learn from the life of this great man. He lived in a time when the people of Jerusalem were very wicked. Many of the people had already been carried captive into Babylon, and yet they would not listen to Jeremiah's warnings that the city would be destroyed if they would not repent. Jeremiah faced opposition from a multitude of false prophets. These liars told the people that they were righteous, that they could keep doing whatever they wanted, and that Jerusalem was safe. The persecution of true prophets became so intense that Jeremiah was cast into prison several times, and many of Jeremiah's fellow prophets were killed. It was during this time that the prophet Lehi and his family were instructed to leave Jerusalem for a land of promise. Jeremiah was not so lucky. It was his lot to stay and do everything he could to save a doomed people. Eventually, he had to endure watching the destruction of Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon.

The thing that impresses me most about Jeremiah is that he never gave up. Despite all of the persecution that he was subjected to, he continued to to his best to preach salvation unto his people. Even after the destruction of Jerusalem, he still did his best to help the people by fulfilling his role as a prophet. Let us all have the same endurance that Jeremiah had. Because we have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives, we can endure to the end, even if things seem like they are never going to get better. We can always have hope. So lets never give up.