Jeremiah 5:20
“Tell the house of Jacob this, put out this bulletin in Judah: Listen to this, you scatterbrains, airheads, with eyes that see but don’t really listen.”
“Make this announcement to Israel, and say to Judah: Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear.”
We are indeed scatterbrained airheads, absorbed with trivia and fantasy, ever looking for our next hit of warm fuzzies. Our culture is undone by the superficiality of its people, rich and poor alike. Let us shun slang and cliches, instead speaking with the power of our nuanced, amazing language. May we fill our heads with ideas worth chewing on and then live them. We are children in adult bodies. We need to grow up.
Lord, again, have mercy. Our land is reeling with the vacuous lives of its inhabitants. Make us people of substance, able to think critically, harnessing our emotions to build things and ideas that will last. Grace us to lead the kind of lives that make a difference, according to your good purpose for all the peoples of the earth.