Jeremiah 21:9 He
who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by
pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are
besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty. (NASB)
It seems counter-intuitive that surrender would end
better than standing your ground, especially for Americans. But that is just
what God told the Israelites when they were besieged by the Babylonians.
I read a story⃰ about a woman who learned (after a near
perfect life) that her third child died in utero. Unable to bear the pain of
suffering, she and her husband turned to their own sources of consolation. He
became a workaholic, she an alcoholic. Those choices resulted in the
destruction of everything they knew: family, marriage, work, relationships.
Everything fell apart.
I think both of these stories have the same reasoning behind
them.
