Confidence in the People or God? (Jer 27-29)

God loves to use some illustrations to show them what He is trying to tell them by using figs in the baskets, smashing clay pot, stones, almond branch or a "walking stick", cisterns and more! And now He used the yoke to illustrate that God is giving them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

After hearing Jeremiah's message from the Lord, Hananiah twisted Jeremiah's message from the Lord by saying, "God will certainly break the yoke of the king of Babylon before two years are out, you will no longer be in harness to him." And he grabbed the wooden yoke from Jeremiah and broke it to illustrate that his prophecy will come true. Dang! Hananiah has that "self-confidence", but not "Godly-confidence" because it doesn't come from God. So Jeremiah walked out... don't bother with him anymore! Phariseecy... (fake pharisee-like prophecy)... BUT God is a wit God, so He called Jeremiah back with iron yoke-bars and prophesied that he will die before the year is out. Then Hananiah died in the seventh month!

I honestly don't know what Hananiah is thinking, but it seems like Hananiah thought that it is a game, forgetting that it is a message from the Lord. Maybe some of us received a word from the Lord and started to look at the people and at the circumstance and wonder who planned this or that. We are looking at the wrong places. We got to remember that every messages from the Lord comes from Him. No one on this planet may plan God's plan! If you feel like God is talking directly to you, then God is talking directly to you. God may talk to you through counsel of saints, through a common sense, through a circumstantial signs, through commanding scriptures or through compelling spirit. We got to remove those false eyes and look directly to Him and give all of the credits to Him! No one on the earth can plan God's plan!

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare (or peace) and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11

Get rid of those false imaginations... Let's begin to recognize how God moves and changes things around us through the Holy Spirit. Put your confidence in God not in the people.