Walk In the Whole Way

Reading:  Jeremiah 6, 7, 8
My Verse:  7:23  "Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God and you will be My people; and walk in the whole way that I command you, that it may be well with you." 

Oh, Lord, so many allow themselves to be lead astray by the 'lying pen'.  So many scribes have taken bits and pieces of your Word and turned them into religious ceremonial observances.  "Behold, the truth is, the lying pen of the scribes has made of the law a falsehood (a mere code of ceremonial observances.)" (8:8)

Verses 8-10 of chapter 7 speaks of how man uses these religious formalities.  "Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot benefit.  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods. . .  And [then dare to] come and stand before Me and say, [By the discharge of this religious formality] we are set free! - only to go on with this wickedness and these abominations?"

Oh, Lord,  it is a terrible thing to lead others astray, but we each of us must answer for ourselves. "For I will pour out their wickedness upon them [and not on their false teachers only, for the people could not have been deceived except by their own consent]." (14:16)

 I must "walk in the whole way".   I must read Your Word which instructs me how to"walk in the whole way".

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!