a hard word from Jeremiah

This passage comes from Jeremiah 5 ... God is calling on Jeremiah to deliever a very hard word to the people of Jerusalem - it is a message of doom and judgment. But it doesn't come out of a vacuum, as if God were some sort of cosmic kill-joy, or some pathological killer. He created us for relationship, to worship Him alone, and to love our neighbor's as ourselves. Because the people of Judah and Jerusalem failed to keep those two things as the focus of their lives, personally and nationally, they fell away from God, they turned their hearts and minds to other things, false gods, foreign idols, which were really nothing. And this is what God said ...

5:19 And when the people ask, 'Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you will tell them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.'

What do you think? Go and read - if you can make the time, go ahead and read from chapter 1 up to chapter 5 - Jeremiah 5. If God created us for Himself, and if He is the source of all our blessings, all we enjoy, is He not justified when we turn away from Him and put our hope and trust in false gods which are truly nothing at all? What do you think?