Don't try to burn the written Word of God

Jeremiah 35-36 are about how people respond to the written Word of God, and the message is, obey God's Word and be forgiven (Jer. 36:1-3), try to 'burn' (or destroy it) and be 'burnt' (or destroyed) (Jer. 36:30-31). 

Sadly we live in an age in which the written Word of God is being 'burnt' in many places as people attempt to silence what the written Word of God says about the idolatries of our days.

Here are some questions from Jeremiah 35-36:

• Do we obey the Word of God as consistently as the Rechabites obeyed the instruction of their father? (Jer. 35)

• Do we think we can somehow nullify the challenge of God's written Word ? (Like the Judean king Jehoiakim who burnt the scrolls of Jeremiah - Jer. 36:22-26)

• Do we realize that God will not allow His written Word to be forever destroyed or silenced? (See how despite all opposition Jeremiah ensures that God's Word is in written form and when burnt, it gets rewritten - Jer. 36:4, 18, 32)

• And are we willing to be a part of the persistent witness to the written Word of God despite opposition? (See how persistently Jeremiah gets Baruch to go and read the Word in the Temple even when Jeremiah had been banned from going to the Temple - Jer. 36:5-10)