King Zedekiah was instructed by Jeremiah to surrender himself to the King of Babylon. “You will be preserved if you do,” was Jeremiah’s advice to him. He couldn’t see it. He chose rather to hunker down and try to preserve his own life in his own way. Mistake! Because of his disobedience to God’s prophet, he was tortured to see all his sons slaughtered in front of him. Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and carried away in chains to be a prisoner the rest of his life.

We think we have a better plan for our lives than God does. If we do, we’re like Zedekiah who forsook the mercy God extended to him.

“Whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”  [Matt. 7:24,25]

READ/HEAR: Jer. 39,40