Hissing

Jeremiah 18, God’s people played with false gods.

They chose to stumble along their own favorite path rather than walk on God’s way.

They gave reason for those watching them to hiss, like snakes.

But my people have forgotten me;

they make offerings to false gods;

they made them stumble in their ways,

in the ancient roads,

and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever.

Jer 18.15-16a

From where I am sitting, it looks like things have not changed a whole lot.

I see folks hissing at Christ’s church, and it is a sound that offends my spirit.