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Today's reading: Jeremiah 17-21

"Lord, you know all about..." Jeremiah 18:23 NLT

Spiritually Jeremiah was discouraged.

Physically Jeremiah was spent.

Emotionally Jeremiah was frayed.

Mentally Jeremiah was exhausted.

He was trying, with all that he had in him, to do God's work. He was saying what God spoke to His heart. He was attempting to lead God's people back to God.

But things weren't going well for him. Things weren't going well at all.

So he begins one of his many prayers...

Lord, you know all about it.

He went on listing the offenses against him. He made suggestions to God about how to correct the situation. He reiterated the fact that he was in it for the long haul. He praised God for who He was and all he had done.

But the beginning of the prayer is what strikes me as the most powerful...reminding himself that God was in all of it, aware of all of it.

I need that reminder some days more than others.