THE RUINED LOINCLOTH

Thus the LORD said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”

So I bought the waistband according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loins.

Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,

“Get up and take the waistband that you have bought, which is [wrapped] around your loins, and go to the [river] Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”

So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD had commanded me.

And after many days the LORD said to me, “Get up, go to the Euphrates and get the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”

Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistband was decayed and ruined; it was completely worthless.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Thus says the LORD, ‘In this same way I shall destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

These wicked and malevolent people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubborn way of their heart and have followed other gods [which are nothing–just man-made carvings] to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this waistband which is completely worthless.

For as the waistband clings to the body of a man, so I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the LORD, ‘that they might be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they did not listen and obey.’

F.B.Meyer
on
Jeremiah 13:1-11

9. What was the parable of the girdle intended to teach?

THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE

This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention of the people must have been powerfully arrested. Or, it may be that this is only a vivid style of presentation. Whichever it is, the chief idea is the intimacy of relationship between the Chosen People and their God, Jer_13:11. Oh, that He would cause us to cleave to Him! The degradation of the best produces the worst, and nothing more strikingly sets forth the condition to which those may sink who have abused the highest possibilities, than the condition of this marred and profitless girdle. Let us beware! since capable of God’s best and highest, we are also liable to the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Jerusalem is apostrophized, and asked where was the beautiful flock of sister and daughter towns which had gathered under her lead. They had been destroyed, and their people were in captivity. Their destruction had come from those who had been allies and friends, Jer_13:21; but their sin was so deeply seated and inveterate that such a fate was inevitable. There was no hope of reformation, Jer_13:23. It was easier to expect a leopard to change his spots than that Israel should do good. Only Christ can do this for us. He can with a word arrest a Niagara in its fall and bid it leap back. His grace can cause the leprosy of inbred sin to cease its hold, never again to pollute the soul.

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