Why do Bad People Have it So Good? (Jer 11-14)

"Why do bad people have it so good?" Jeremiah asked the similar question as Job had asked. Although Jeremiah isn't going through the suffering like Job, but he suffers because he griefs for His people! Job went through the sufferings to grow and let His Name be glorified as God blessed Job twice. Also by his action, Job shows that our hope in Him is powerful, how it helps us to go through the sufferings, to survive! It is like how some of the Jews, or other surviviors, such as Corrie ten Boom who wrote "The Hiding Place" about her life, survived the Holocaust.

But it is absolutely different with Jeremiah because he didn't suffer anything upon himself. He suffers because whatever breaks His heart breaks his! He wept over Israel because they are His children as well. He wept that the enemies, who he called "bad people" when he asked Him this question, will overtake Israel.

But what exactly is Jeremiah weeping for? "If you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride". Jeremiah wept because Israel didn't turn their eyes and ears to God, but kept their eyes and ears to the idols, tree and stone idols, also called stick god. Those gods cannot speak, cannot move, are made by man! Why do they listen to them, I bet Jeremiah wept and shout to God, "how can they believe into those gods?". It is shocking for Jeremiah because Jeremiah knew and heard the message from God.

Sometimes consequence comes to help the people to learn. God said, "And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land". He will bring them back together after, "they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name." It is the only way God can teach them like how parents teach their children. Sometimes parents had to let their children to get what they want, so they will learn after they get them to see why their parents did what they did. Wow! Yeah our God want to be like our Daddy! We are like His children.

"No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt a man. But it's God who judges: He brings one down, He exalts another." Psalm 75:6-7