Jeremiah tells us that there was a time and a place when God was upset, when the heavens were shocked, and appalled, and utterly desolate (2:12). It sounds like it was a time and place when God was weeping, a time and a place when God hurt. Can you believe that there could be such a time, such a place, such a God?

In this time and place God was upset because the people had strayed. God’s very own people had turned away. They had gone after worthless things (2:5). Things that seemed important, but really weren’t; things that seemed to matter, but really didn’t. They wasted lots of time and lots of energy going after these things. In the end, it seems, they also wasted a lot of themselves. Pursuing worthless things, it seems, only makes you worthless in the end. Why would people do that? Wh…