Day 54
Jeremiah 1-10
Some describe this book of the Bible as being the worst disaster in history. A holocoust-sized disaster. I think the people of Judah would agree.
It's hard for me to sort out the many references to life today these readings in this book bring about. Much like us Americans, we think that just by the fact that we live in the United States of America is protection enough. That God, our 'temple,' will protect us no matter how far we stray from the principles our forefathers founded our great country on. No matter how far we stray from God's commands.
I think even Christians fall into this trap in thinking that just because "they are Christian" they will be spared from judgement. Spared from judgement day when they are asked to give an account of what they did for God. How they served. Who they served.
I think our country is modern-day Judah. I think we are the modern day people of Judah.
And the further in this journey I get, the more questions I have. God's ways and God's plans are simply not always easy to understand. I've never experienced that more than I have this week.
But that's ok. God does understand.
Jeremiah 1
"The word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
"Ah, Sovereign Lord," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a child."
But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord.
I cannot recall how many times I tried to use excuses to not be an advocate. To not put myself in a position to cause such harsh criticism at times. When God appoints you to do something, stirs in you to do something, or just calls you completely out-of-the-blue to do something, you simply do it and trust that God will indeed rescue you.
I have an internet friend who is an autism advocate. A pretty fearless one at that. She knows what it's like to be called to do something and have to at the same time endure such hardship and criticism in doing it. Her daughter, who is but a child still, wants to start talking about her brother with autism. Educate her friends. Her mom is rightly concerned. She knows what lies ahead for her daughter on that path. I hope that above verse comforts her in that if God called that "I am only a child" to want to speak up for her little brother, then God will indeed be with her and rescue her.
Jeremiah 1:19
They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord.
I have been so heartbroken for the huge step backward in autism awareness with the admission of a young man with autism to a psychiatric ward for drugs, drugs, and more drugs; and not a medical center for bio-medical testing and treatment. I have such hope in Jeremiah 1:10 that says, "See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."
Oh how I pray Jeremiah 1:19 for all the Alex's and all their parents. It's worth repeating, again and again and again:
They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord.
The autism community is Jeremiah in that sense. We have been appointed, like it or not, to uproot, tear down, destroy, and overthrow all that is wrong in the medical, pharmaceutical, and vaccine industry. The destruction of our children's health by their callous disregard was our calling.
In this book of the Bible it is about the worst disaster in history --- and it is exactly what our children are facing now in modern times. The vaccine program, Pharma, and closed-minded doctors - are all the worst health disaster.
My only hope is that so very often, disasters lead to hope rekindled, even in the midst of flames.
I'm sure prophets in the Bible times were hated much like autism advocates are in modern time. Poor Jeremiah had to warn everyone of impending doom and gloom. Impending judgement for their sinful ways.
Jeremiah 1:16
I will pronounce my judgements on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.
All we autism advocates seem to do is share bad news as well. Discrimination, abuse, death. Vaccines maim, Pharma is corrupt, Medical doctors are ignorant.
Their judgement was because of abandoning God and putting their trust in something as useless as a cracked pot to carry water.
Jeremiah 2:13
My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
I know we have done the same. We have allowed our government to brainwash us into putting our trust in man-made medicine vs God's perfectly designed immune system.
Jeremiah warned the people of that day they would be wiped out, that a holocaust was coming.
I wonder if Autism is ours.
Our idolatry of drugs, profit, greed. Our too busy lives in putting more time, energy, and thought into our next car purchase than what we allow to be injected in our children and for what reason. Our insistence in trying to outsmart God's perfect design.
Jeremiah 2:21
I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?That verse brings such mommy guilt! I gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy. Why did I turn against that and put my faith in man telling me I had to inject this perfectly healthy baby with poison?
God had been trying to warn the people of Judah, but they refused to listen. Much like our government today, and much like our children's doctors today who are told what to think, what to believe, over thinking and researching for themselves.
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.....That is us! The 1 in 88 are screaming out yet our government does not hear!
In so very many ways I can just hear God saying these things in Jeremiah 7:
Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, "This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!" If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. "Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe" -- safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord."
OOOPSIES!
I think the vaccine industry, Pharma, and the medical establishment with regard to the cause and treatment of autism - is that den of robbers.
And parents have been watching. And they've started thinking. And acting.
Jeremiah 7:23
Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:28
Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.
Jeremiah 7:30
The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.
I can't separate the disobedience of the people of Judah then, from the greed, corruption, and callous disregard of the people behind Pharma, GMO's, CDC, Vaccine Industry of now.
God wasn't going to take Judah's disobedience any longer.
Jeremiah tried to warn them.
Nor will we take the destruction of our children's health any longer.
You've been warned.
And though I write many of these with regard to my autism journey, make no mistake, this book applies to all of us, in all ways.
We've been warned...
