They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,

....  Saying, “Peace, peace!’” When there is no peace (Jeremiah 6:14). The “they” are the priests and prophets, the leaders of the people.  The Lord had sent Jeremiah to backsliding Israel (3:6). Judgement was coming,  and Israel would be taken into captivity in Babylon, “yet the priests and prophets gave assurances of peace when all is war” (14b Living Bible). “They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound (14a New Living Translation).  Jeremiah was one of the few who were speaking the Word of the Lord. Punishment and exile were coming as a result of the backsliding of the people (Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you – 2:19).  Jeremiah's commission was,  first to  “root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down,” and only then “to build and to plant” (1:10).

Everything changes, and yet nothing changes.  Many leaders today are “healing the hurts” of society lightly. We are told that evil is good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20). Unbridled expressions of sexuality are said to be  wholesome  and healthy,  yet sexually spread diseases are rampant fatherlessness is epidermic.  We are being told that the family and family values are archaic,  things of the past and to be discarded. Yet in the pain and meaninglessness of our godlessness we are turning to drugs and  other mind numbing things. Suicide is up and violence has taken to the streets. In the name of compassion and justice the oppressed are being turned into the oppressors, yet we stumble blindly on blaming our pain and dysfunction on anyone but ourselves.

The Living Bible's version of 14a reads “You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there!” The word denial comes to mind. The point is, that if you don't believe the truth, you will in the end believe anything that helps you to avoid admitting and then having to deal with the truth.  And there will always be those who are willing to affirm you, or enable you in your dysfunction. This is how victims become the victimizers.  When real and tangible wrong is done to you, and you are told “don't get mad, get even,”and you follow through what you do in the end is to poison yourself and those you love (Hebrews 12:15).  And in any case bitterness is not content with justice it is rather two eyes for and eye and two teeth for a tooth (see Matthew 5:38).

Father, the Law said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but You tell us not repay evil for evil (1 Peter 3:9). Lord we need to come out of denial where we are in it, and we need to speak the truth in love at the right time,  and in the right way. to those who are stuck there. Sometimes Lord we just need to have good boundaries, and we need courage and wisdom to put up boundaries where we have failed to protect ourselves, or we have been enablers of others.  So first of all Lord search my heart this morning to see if there be any wicked way within me and lead me into all truth. And secondly Lord  give me the serenity to accept what I cannot change in others, give me the courage to act when I should, and the wisdom to know the difference in Jesus Name Amen