The Comforting Word

They did not want to hear the Word of God from Jeremiah.   They banned him from going to the house of the Lord so he asked Baruch to come and dictate what God was telling him.  Baruch dictated it and then Jeremiah told him to go and read the Word publicly.   He then got a private reading with the king.  However, the king shredded the scroll and burned every bit.  When Baruch returned to Jeremiah, Jeremiah 36.32 tells us what he did- Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire.

You cannot stop the Word.  You can ignore it, but that does not take its validity away.  You can fail to read it or listen to it, but it is not that God does not speak. You just are not listening.  You can try to stamp it out, ban it, even burn it but it still stands.  The Word does not change.  That could be haunting to you or it could be comforting to you.  Either way, that does not change the timeless truths of the Word of God.

Now that is a comfort to me...