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Jeremiah chapter 22 verse 13.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice.

This picture here in Jeremiah 22 is of Jehoekim who was basically building up his own palace and

ignoring the needs of the poor around him and living and evil and idolatry and immorality and

God says through the Prophet Jeremiah, who who builds his house by unrighteousness. I read that and I think, how am I building my house?

When I think about my life, my marriage, my family, how am I building my house, my life, my building it on

righteousness and

he talks about build his upper rooms by injustice

he's talking about a lack of concern for the poor and the needy. You look a few chapters later in Jeremiah 2 216,

he says, the Bible says he judged the cause of the poor and needy.

Then it was well.

It's not this to know me, declares Lord so to know God is to judge the cause of the poor and the needy to defend the poor and the needy so I would just

Encourage you to ask yourself today. How are you building your house one are you building it on

righteousness on holiness is your life reflecting the righteousness and the

holiness and the justice of God the compassion of God for those in need around you.

Is that what you're building your life, your marriage, your family, on?

Is that what the church you are part of is built on, justice for the poor and the needy.

This is the word of God, so God help us. Help us to build our lives in our homes on righteousness and justice,

specifically when it comes to those who are in urgent need around us.

God, we pray for your eyes to see those physical and spiritual needs

around us. God not to be indifferent to them, not to be so focused on

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