In Preparation (Jeremiah 12:1-6) FAITH WALK

Published on Aug 10, 2025

If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan? – Jeremiah 12:5

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Jeremiah asks the question that plagues the minds of many, within and without the church. He couldn’t understand why the wicked prosper, while he often suffered. Jeremiah also thought that the wicked could not enjoy any prosperity or pleasure unless God allowed it. Jeremiah had questions, but he asks with humility (v1). 

Jeremiah was going through spiritual, mental and emotional struggle through the persecution from his fellow villagers from Anathoth. They had evidently mocked him and laughed at him. Later on, Jeremiah would have to spend a night in the stocks (Jeremiah 20:1-3), confinement in a cistern (Jeremiah 38:6), and imprisonment in the court of the guard (Jeremiah 28:13). But the troubles he was having in Anathoth were nothing compared to the troubles he would have later. 

God’s answer to Jeremiah was both powerful and profound. 

God does not answer Jeremiah directly but encourages him to regard his present challenge as a preparation for greater challenges to come. God tells him to make his face like flint and not care for them. If he found it difficult in Anathoth, how would he fare in Jerusalem? Jeremiah needed to learn to trust God in his present challenge, in order to prepare him for the horsemen or greater challenges in the future. 

God never calls us to contend with horsemen until He has trained us to run with men. Have you considered that the Lord might be preparing you for greater things through your struggles today?

Lord, help me trust you as you prepare me through today’s challenges, I pray.

Extended Reading — Jeremiah 10-13

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Preethi Alice Jacob

Preethi Jacob is the author of the yearlong devotional At the Potter’s Wheel, Day by Day. Her journey includes teaching a Bible Study Fellowship class, teaching and leading the Sunday School ministry in her church, leading Bible studies, besides counselling young women. She serves on the Global Mission Team of the United Bible Societies and lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and two young adult children.

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