“Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16 (NASB)
In Jeremiah 36, God told Jeremiah to write down His words on a scroll to encourage the people of Israel to repent and turn back to God. When the scroll was read to King Jehoiakim, he showed his rejection of God’s Word by cutting it up and throwing it into the fire. When I tell this story, I begin cutting a scroll up and putting it in a pretend fire of yellow, brown, and red construction paper. I tell the children it would be like our taking our Bible and cutting it up and burning it. They are all appalled at the very idea.
