[Gospel Minutes. 1 March 2002: 1-3.] “And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain” (Jeremiah 20:9). In the Book of Jeremiah, we read of a boiling pot, a fiery prophet and the fierceness of God’s wrath against Judah. The boiling caldron represented the teeming horde of Babylon, sent by Jehovah as a judgment upon the iniquity of his people. The stalwart prophet was Jeremiah, whose lips had been touched by the Lord and thus Jeremiah had to tear down the false standards of a disobedient and gainsaying Judah. Judah Was a Gad-About Bride Those who should have wept were instead giddy with their reveling over the altars in the groves. The summer of their discontent had blended into the autumn of defeat, and the gates of Babylon beckoned to that reprobate generation. Soon would they sing the Lord’s song in a strange land (Psalm 137:4) to the tempo of a heart that had been broken and contrite far too late to avail for Judah’s deliverance from captivity. Judah had turned from the Great Physician to search in vain for balm in Gilead. No wonder that Jeremiah’s tears flowed like a waterfall. His lamenting over the city of God had just about reached its piercing crescendo when the vile Jehoiakim ascended the throne. False