Jeremiah 12:11
is set in the context of God answering the prayer of
the prophet Jeremiah as written in Jeremiah 12:10-14.
The context passage
made mention of God’s vineyard and His field. To begin with, what is meant by God’s vineyard
and field? 1 Corinthians 3:9 provides the
answer. The entire world is the vineyard
and field of God. Those who accepts
Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior are the cultivated field. We see in Matthew 3:12 that believers are
referred to as wheat while the unrepentant, the chaff.
As can be seen from
the context passage, it was the invaders who made the field of God, the world,
a desolated wasteland. The invaders are
the pseudo shepherds or false teachers.
The prophet Jeremiah
asked a question in Jeremiah 12:1 which I believe is
very much relevant today, “Why are wicked people
successful?” If
you want to know God’s answer to that question, you may want to read Jeremiah 12:14 – 17.
Jeremiah 12:11
tells us that the reason the entire world has been made a wasteland is because
no man cared that the world was spinning out of control. As it was then, so it is now. This is echoed in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 where it is stated
that “The
time will come when people will not tolerate sound
doctrine and accurate instruction; but wanting to have
their ears tickled with something pleasing, they will accumulate for themselves
many teachers, one after another, chosen to satisfy their own
desires and to support the errors they hold. They will turn their ears away from the truth
and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions and will accept
the unacceptable.”
In the words of Isaiah 53:6, all the inhabitants of
the world have wandered away from God with each turning to his own way. People are devouring each other for the sake
of material possessions and exploiting the earth for financial gains. God created planet earth for mankind to live
in and yet mankind is destroying it along with each other in order to live
better lives. Ironical. If one destroys the very boat he is in, who
would eventually suffer? Instead of
turning to God, each has turned to his own ways to meet individual desires and
wants.
Despite this, God
cares and while we were still in this mode of blatant disregard, God sent His
only beloved Son in the flesh as Jesus of Nazareth to die for us as recorded in
Romans 5:8. In Romans 8:28, we read that God is
deeply concerned about us.
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