The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Jeremiah 2:5-13, “Thus says the LORD, “What injustice did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and walked after emptiness and became empty?
6 “They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of deep darkness, through a land that no one crossed and where no man dwelt?’
7 “I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, and My inheritance you made an abomination.
8 “The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ And those who handle the law did not know Me; the rulers also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that did not profit.
9 “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” declares the LORD, “and with your sons’ sons I will contend.
10 “For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar and observe closely and see if there has been such a thing as this!
11 “Has a nation changed gods when they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 “Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder, be very desolate,” declares the LORD.
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

There are numerous happenings today that make this word of Jeremiah applicable to our people and to our times. Re-read the history of the Declaration of Independence and try and to be convinced that it was not a document shadowed from Heaven. Do the same with our U. S. Constitution. Yet, today our nation behaves as if the Constitution has no applicability to our current era.

Indeed, we were brought into a fruitful land; the LORD provided us its fruit and its good things; but we have defiled the land He gave us, and His inheritance has become an abomination. We have changed the glory the LORD produced for “that which does not profit.”

Were we dealing with only local and national law-enforcement officials, we would do well to beware.
Yet, we behave as if there were no LORD Almighty
beholding our manner of life from His Heavens. He warns us of His anger and of His power. We would
do well to listen, for one day He will require an accounting, and we will be found wanting. Indeed, we have forsaken the LORD, and those cisterns that once held His Living Water are broken. Where now do we look for help?

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom