Junebugs, Junipers, and Jesus
“Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness." Jeremiah 48:6 It is a beautiful thing to be unsettled from comfortable places in this life. Like the Junebug catching you by surprise, flying into your hair and not easily untangled but fully realized, our Heavenly Father lovingly finds ways to awaken our senses to His presence, fully realized. He calls us beyond mediocrity or being a casual acquaintance to us in any way. He requires more. When the Prophet Jeremiah calls to the people at God's bidding to flee and save their lives, becoming like the juniper in the wilderness, it is a call to abandon everything in the world that grips them and keeps them from total submission to the will of God. It is a call to have nothing and yet have everything. It is a call to abandon pride, not just for pride's sake, but to have something far greater. Him. God calls us to the same thing today. Do you hear Him? He is beckoning you. Calling ...