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Jeremiah 14:17-22; ps 79 for the glory of your name,O Lord, deliver us; Matthew 13:36-43

Listen to the words of Jeremiah, "we recognize, O Lord,  the guilt of our fathers;"

He goes on to say,"that we have sinned against you."

The beginning of hope for the future,for a new life,  new dream,for a new tomorrow in the biblical record always seems to stand or fall upon one little thing: acknowledgement of sin.

Repentance seems to always be associated with hope for tomorrow.  Repentance always seems to be a sign of maturity of God's people.

The moment they recognize their folly and foolishness,their offense against God, then and only then are they able to grab life by the horns and truly begin to experience the fullness of life as God so desired for them and created them to experience in the first place.

Repentance was the hinge on which life of rel possibilities opened wide.

This is true not only for the people in the time of Jeremih but also for us.

Remember the first words of Jesus as recorded by the gospel writers as he begins his public ministry: Repent,the kingom of God is at hand.

There is that word again, Repent.


Something's never change.  There are many in our society and in our world tht no longer want to recognizes in or even give it any credence in life, in the world, in their personal decision making prowess.

Sin has been over looked, pushed out of sight  and mind and has been replaced by this seductive mentality that sin was just another attempt for control.  we are civilized and we no longer need to bother ourselves with the notion of sin, or guilt, or anything else that seems to bring us down.  rather, we should live and let live.  We are told that each person can determine for themselves what is right or wrong;in fact, we have come to a point in our society where right and wrong are  no longer options.

We have become to civilized for such petty arguments of right and wrong.  Truth now no longer has any color: Black or white or even gray.  There are no shades of truth.  Truth is no longer necessary.  We now operate solely on feelings.

Therefore sin and guilt have been annihilated by the our personal whim.

And yet our society has not found peace and stability.  One very corner we live out what Jeremiah recognizes his day: "if I walk out into the field, look! Those slain by the sword.  If I enter the city, look! Those consumed by hunger..."

Violence and hunger, death and destruction continue to rise.  Families are destroyed.  Marriages are being wrecked. Children are being slaughtered under the pretense of the right to choose.

Perhaps it is time for us as a society to return to the heart of not just the gospel but thievery center of what it means to be human.  Perhaps it is time to let Gods show us the way. Perhaps it is time to no longer take our life in our own hands but to let the revelation of God to shine light on the land of shadows we creat the earth to be.

Perhaps it is time to let the light of heavens love to restore us to life and free us from the prisons of our own making.

Perhpas it is time to repent,to acknowledge our sins and truly experience life as it was meant for us by the creator's hand.

The field is the world as Jesus tells us in the gospel for today.  It is time to sow the good seed of repentance and thus shall we beamed ready for the harvest.