Chapter 35 – The Rechabites

This is something of an interlude chapter. God calls Jeremiah and tells him to invite some people over and to have some wine ready for them. The people (the Rechabites) come over, but they refuse the wine. They don’t feel right about drinking when things are so rough and besides that, they have been instructed by leaders not to drink. It’s not a chapter so much about drinking or not drinking. 
Rather, God lets Jeremiah see that there are still some people left who get it. There are still some people left who seek guidance and who determine to listen. 
There is a great little line in here as well. The Rechabites say that their listening and decision making is so that they will live many days “in the land of our sojourn”.  
That’s a beautiful description. 
There is something tangible and physical in it, but something spiritual as well. 
“The land of our sojourn”. 

Amen.