Jeremiah 31:34 – Interposed Iniquity
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity… Jeremiah 31:34, New King James Version My friend Chuck took the bold step of denying his fears control over his course of action. He went to minister in a fearsome prison setting. He could sense effectiveness, but not peace. His own prison of pornography addiction still confined him. He recalls, "I could feel God's love flowing through me to other people, but I couldn't really feel it for myself." Thus the continuity, then, as God's fiat in Jeremiah 31:34 unfolds. As we know Him intimately rather than secondarily through someone else's experiences, brother or neighbor, conviction and misery is real. They cannot see within our hearts. Even where they may catch glimpses of that which binds us, like David who refrains from truly discipling hi