This is what the LORD says: "Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing." – Jeremiah 30:12

Today's Scripture Reading (July 12, 2023): Jeremiah 30

We live in a world marred by prejudice, and one of the deepest seems to be antisemitism or prejudice against the Jews. I know some might want to argue with me, but the racial prejudice suffered by Jews is broader, deeper, and has been exhibited over a longer time than any other I know. It is broader in that it is exhibited by almost every race part of the human race. It is deeper in that antisemitism encompasses almost every aspect of life. Antisemitism hits racial, economic, business, religious, and every other aspect of life that we can imagine. And it is longer in that we have proof of antisemitism that dates back to the 3^rd century B.C.E. and Alexandria, when Manetho, an Egyptian, wrote derisively of the Jews and their practices and even the "absurdity of their Law," rules, and regulations. And the anti-Jewish edicts issued by Antiochus IV Epiphanes around 170 B.C.E. resulted in the Maccabees Rebellion during the 2^nd Century B.C.E.

Considering all of these factors, I am amazed at holocaust deniers who do not accept the horrors committed against the Jews during World War II. It wasn't the first time such a thing had happened. And it likely won't be the last, although I sincerely wish that wasn't true. As Christians, we must be willing to stand against prejudice wherever we find it.

And maybe this broad, deep, and long prejudice dates back to this time in history. Speaking to his people, God says that the wound inflicted on his people cannot be cured, and the injury they have suffered cannot be healed. Their allies are gone, and no one will be on their side. No one that is, except for God.

One theme we need to look for in the Bible is whenever God says something is impossible, it is at that time that God also asserts, "But I can do it." And that is true here. God stresses that coming back from this situation cannot be a reality, except that God can make it a reality.

The world may not love the Jews, but their God, the world's creator, does. No one was going to come alongside them and plead their cause, but God would hear their plea anyway. Israel had a history of crying out to foreign gods, yet the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had not left them. He was still willing to do the impossible on behalf of his children.

Tomorrow's Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 31