Jeremiah 4: Whose fault? All are guilty!
Jeremiah Chapter 6/7 Jeremiah predicted that a great evil (Babylon) would come from the north and destroy Israel. His prediction was based on an astute assessment of the current situation and a reasonable conclusion. No one wanted to hear or head his warning. Today we have many people making such assessments and judgments about the state of our nation and the threats to it from the south and from within. If Jeremiah was here today, I think he would be reminding us that all of us (or many of us) have benefited from the last thirty years of unrestrained capitalism and unprecedented environmental destruction. We need to get past the blame game and all pull together to change our ways, turn ourselves back to our Christian values of justice and peace, repentance and mercy, compassion and love. We need in our personal and corporate lives to reflect those values or our destruction will come just as surely as Babylon destroyed Is...