Jeremiah 2

Devotion to God. The people followed God out of Egypt, through the desert, and into holy land. They trusted that the Lord will take them away from their misery as slaves and into righteousness as they stand before God. 

We've put God to the side and instead replaced with money, social activities, pride, and other worthless idols. These idols won't save us. They give an illusion of control (as what I heard from this past Sunday's sermon). We should be submitting to authority instead of asking for autonomy. We shouldn't let ourselves be controlled by things that won't help us. These things don't last. 

Jeremiah 2:13

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Why go elsewhere and find water when God provides the spring of everlasting, living water?

Jeremiah 2:21

I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

God made us to be images of Him. We may be a broken humanity but there is a journey that we are on to bring us closer to our original state that God made us to be. 

Jeremiah 2:32

Does a maiden forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me days without numbers.

If we believe that God is the #1 thing in our lives, we would make time for Him. Like a bride who cannot forget her wedding ornaments, how can we forget God in our own lives?