In Jeremiah, chapter two, verse thirty-two, “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” Jeremiah reveals the intense grief and sorrow of God because of the people’s unfaithfulness. They had done the unthinkable in forgetting the One who had redeemed them from Egypt and cared for them in the wilderness.
The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The chosen people of God had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of Him!
The Lord was displeased with their confidences and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.
How sad the situation is when a mother or father cares for their kids as they grow, and as they get older, they forget them! How bad it is when a person who has been healed and delivered by God from an illness becomes ungrateful and goes back into the world to live it up because they were unable to fulfill those desires when they were sick! God did so much for His people by delivering them from Egypt, from those years of bondage, and then grumbled in the wilderness, only to turn around and fall short of reaching the promised land.