The coming judgment that the prophet started to describe earlier continues. In Jeremiah 4:11-14, he saw the enemy God would use to judge His people. They came like a scorching wind from the desert blowing destructively toward the direction of God’s people. This is how verse 11 puts it, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse, a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.”
Much like a mighty whirlwind the enemy would be swiftly blistering toward Jerusalem. Their horses and chariots would blast toward God’s people swiftly like an eagle. As Jeremiah envisaged the devastation coming upon them, he exclaimed in verse 13, "Woe to us, for we are ruined!” Then in verse 14, he made a desperate plea for the people of Jerusalem to repent urging the people saying:
Wash your heart
from evil, O Jerusalem,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked thoughts
Lodge within you?
When
God’s grace is taken for granted, His patience could wear thin. When that
happens the judgment would be inevitable and swift would be the discipline. We
must not toy with God. Patient as He is,
let us must not test His endurance. To continually test God reflects unbelief.
God is not in the business of playing games with us because God and our eternal
destiny are too precious to be treated lightly. Sober up and live for God.
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