More destruction
Day 384, Saturday, Aug. 30
Jeremiah Chapter 49
The roll-call of destruction that will fall upon nations and peoples continues today.
Edom is singled out for its pride in one of the more poetic passages of chapter 49. In verse 16 we read, “The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

-Rev. Mark Fleming

Saturday meditation

Job 28:20-28
Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell? It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky. Destruction and Death say, “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it. And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

Prayer focus
Protect us from the sin of pride.