Scripture Union Daily Guide – 4 December 2025: Today’s Devotional Reading and Reflection – Thursday
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TOPIC: Wherever He leads, I’ll go.
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Opening Prayer
As I read your word O Lord, grant me an insight and grace to do your will in Jesus name.
Questions for Meditation
► Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
► Q5: Is there any warning for me to heed?
Scripture Reading
Jeremiah 13:1-14
1 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” 2 So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist.
3 Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time: 4 “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath[a] and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” 5 So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.
6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.” 7 So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
8 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 9 “This is what the Lord says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless! 11 For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,’ declares the Lord, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.’
12 “Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’ 13 then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. 14 I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’”
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Jeremiah did not know where God was going when He commanded him to get a linen belt neither did it make sense to hide it in a rock opening. It will be soiled and become unusable! However, Jeremiah obeyed God step by step. He therefore provides a striking contrast to Judah, who consistently refused to obey the Lord their God (Jeremiah 13:10). Notice the relationship God intended to have with them – ‘to be my people, for my renown and praise and honour’ (Jeremiah 13:11).
How disappointed God must be to see that they engage in wickedness instead. They have become like a soiled linen belt. Disobedience spoils us and destroys our relationship with God. God wants us to be Jeremiahs who obey Him without complaining, giving excuses or murmuring.
Notice what God threatens to do to the Israelites (Jeremiah 13:9,13-14)? God is warning His people to repent or else face the terrible pain that He promises in this passage. Once the day of punishment comes, there will be no turning back – no pity, no mercy, no compassion (Jeremiah 13:14). God gives people plenty of warnings out of His mercy. We should respond to Him now and not wait until He withdraws His mercy.
Insight
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Grant me grace, dear Lord, to promptly obey you even when I do not understand where you are leading me.
One Year Bible Reading Plan
2 Thessalonians 3; Proverbs 24.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version: 2 Corinthians 1-4
PRAYER BULLETIN FOR 4TH DECEMBER 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
BIBLE READING PROMOTION WORKSHOPS (IN ALL ZONES/CHURCHES)
“Thy word is a light to my path, and a lamp to my feet”. Psalm 119:105
THANK GOD FOR:
* The gift of His word to mankind • The illumination the word gives to the lives of those who read and study it
PRAY FOR:
* More people will determine to make the Word of God their companion in the coming year • Bible Reading Promotions will yield greater results in encouraging reading and studying the word of God
PRAY AGAINST:
Every strategy the devil is using to discourage believers from using SU reading notes
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