(February 2, 2015)
Zedekiah
asking Jeremiah whether there was any word from the Lord was astonishing. After all, this is the wicked king who turned
from the Lord – and yet, he believed enough to go to the Lord’s prophet for
information. I think there is a deeply-ingrained
sense of the right and wrong in each of us. I have certainly demonstrated a capacity for
self-deception in my life (likely continuing – if I am deceiving myself now
almost by definition I wouldn’t know where), but even in those times of
self-deception there was a part of me that knew. There was an eternal portion, beyond reason
and passion, that seems to know the truth. And it seems that Zedekiah has a similar
portion of himself that knew the truth regardless of how little he wanted to
follow the truth.
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