Old Testament 2 – 2020 – BGO

Name: IAN JAN N. DALISAY

Date: February 20, 2020
Devotional No. 03

Scripture Text: Jeremiah 6:16 NIV

Creative Devotional Title: The Old and Beaten Track

Devotional:
It’s very easy nowadays to look for directions. Just type the location on your phone and
Google or Siri will give the directions to your destination the fastest way possible or even
choosing which road to take to avoid the traffic jams. This is much different when I took my
winter break trip during my exchange program in the United States in December 2012. With
months of planning, I had to print out maps from North Dakota to most cities in the East
Coast, highlighted lines using sharpies to mark the best way I think was good and shortest,
and brought the paper maps all throughout my journey.

Jeremiah, during his times, has given the map, an old and out-of-date map, for God’s people
as they were at the crucial crossroads. They were disoriented. People had lost all sense of
direction. Jeremiah gave them a landmark to which people must look at:
This is what the Lord says:
“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
(Jeremiah 6:16 NIV)
Our civilization today now stands at so many crossroads. Perhaps we have our own
crossroads. Some of us are always wondering what God wants for us. Others contemplate a
change of career, change of ministry within the church, or going into marriage. We can’t take
two roads at a time and we need to select only one path to take—and our destiny depends on
it.

Yet, God has given us the right way—a landmark that shall lead us rightfully. In an advanced
society like today, newly paved roads are the best, not old roads full of mud and potholes.
When Jeremiah asked Jerusalem to take the ancient paths, he did not mean to suggest living
in the past and in old-time religion. He tells us to walk according to God’s Word—the biblical
path, an ancient path, old and beaten, yet proven and tested.
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