I Could Not Stay

2021-10-13

“I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay” (Jeremiah 20:9).

Jeremiah was mocked all day long for most of his life because of his preaching. He tried to stop preaching God’s Word just to end the mockery. People were looking for him to fail just to mock him more and get revenge on him. Every time he convinced himself to stop preaching, a strange feeling came on him:

“But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones”

He did everything to stop that feeling. But “I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”