Session 4 | Jeremiah 12:1-13
the language used to describe how the people of Judah had rejected God.
7 I have abandoned my house;
I have deserted my inheritance.
I have handed the love of my life over to her enemies.8 My inheritance has behaved toward me like a lion in the forest.
She has roared against me. Therefore, I hate her.
9 Is my inheritance like a hyena to me?
Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals;
bring them to devour her.10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
they have trampled my plot of land.
They have turned my desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.
11 They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me.
All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come,
for the LORD has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests because of the LORD’s burning anger.
react to the Lord’s description of His people
as “the love of my life.”
God had invited the people of Judah into a special covenant relationship
with Himself. They had rejected God, so He was forced to abandon them.
Direct attention to the Apply the Text question on page 43 and
invite the group to write a private response to this question in the margin of their DDG:
Recall a time when God was faithful to you while others failed you.
Who needs to hear your story of God’s faithfulness?
Plan a way to share with them this week.
Plan a way to share with those individuals this week.
Invite the group to pray silently,
thanking Go
d for His faithfulness to His people.
Reinforce the session by praying specifically for people in the group who are struggling with being fully committed in their relationship with God.