incurable?

jeremiah 30:1-2,12-15,18-22; Psalm 102 The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory; Matthew 14:22-36

Again we listen to the words of Jeremiah:

"Incurable is your wound, grievous your bruise; there is none to plead your cause, no remedy for your running sore, no healing for you...Why cry out over your wound? your pain is without relief..."


Jeremiah looks out into the world, his society, and he sees the destructive reality brought about by the people's choices. The moral decline as opened the city into a pit of destructive malaise. The words he proclaims over the city seem quite dismal indeed, "incurable is your wound."


Often times i look out into the society we live and i feel the same pessimistic sentiment fill my heart. I think, is this wound "incurable" that we have afflicted upon ourself, upon our children, upon our created world.

Looking out what do we see: oil spill in the ocean, devastation of our rain forest, violence and drug traffic on our borders, human slave trading and traffic around the world, wars and nuclear armament, genocide, murder of the unborn, sexual promiscuity and lack of reverence for the gift of sex and life, devastation in our families via divorce and abuse and lies and betrayals, the moral decline of movies and tv shows, practical porn on prime time, laziness and sloth in our children, absentee mothers and fathers, and the list goes on...

It can all be overwhelming...the wound seems incurable and the sore is certainly "running" as Jeremiah speaks of in his day, our day.

As per a conversation I had with a dear friend he asked "where are our heros", where are the ones we look to in order to garner hope in the presence of such decline, destruction, and devastation.

The only hope we have is Christ who bore our sins to the cross. By his wounds we have been healed. The wounds of the world must continually be brought to the wounded one himself.

For it is purity alone that absorbs the wickedness of the world... this is the message of the cross.

Only then do we encounter the strength to not just look for the heros, but to be that which brings light in the darkness: salt of the earth and light of the world must begin with the choices we make and the life we live in our search be pure for the world.


We are the ones that stop the bleeding by the faith we hold firm to and bring into a world like a vaccination, a remedy of sorts.

Purity absorbs the wickedness of the world, the salve that heals pours forth from faith in Christ the pure one himself.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God."

"see what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet, so we are...we do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he pure." 1 John 3:1-3

We must fight for purity...fight for Christ.

For as Jeremiah concludes, "you shall be my people, and I will be your God." Only when we embrace this reality, live this fully, will the salve of grace begin to heal the wounds of nature.