ATTIRES WITHOUT CHRIST:

Jer 2:32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number”.

Judah's irresponsibility showed up most clearly in her forgetfulness of God's past dealings. In the same vein, so many ladies today thought they were free, independent of God. When she is searching for a life partner, she can fast for days, cried and prayed fervently for God to help her. But after she got what she wanted, she spends her time preparing for the wedding and forgets the God who gives her the husband.

    

These LADIES have not so much attachment to God as they have to their dress and ornaments. They never forget them: and even when arrived at old age, look with pleasure on the dress and ornaments which they have worn in their youth.

As a bride, you will never forget your wedding ornaments, but you have forgotten your God who gave you the husband. And you had done this days without number.    

Then the Lord seems to adopt a kind of taunting tone: "Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire?" When did either of them forget a pin, a jewel, a toy, a feather? What, a memory for little things, for dressing, for adornment, for outgoing, for public excitement! What a recollection for dates, when the date is filled up with an amusement, a new sensation! But no memory for sacrifice, for prayer, for holy sacrament, for consecrated day, for revelations from heaven, -- a memory that will hold all the fiction that ever was written, but a memory like a sieve in respect of everything that is written in the Bible! What a voice is the Lord's! How strident, how mocking! How tender, beseeching, importunate, and full of lamentation! "My people have forgotten Me days without number." Could the complaint have been stated more pensively? The very voice in which it is uttered adds to the poignancy of the distress. Who likes to be forgotten? Who likes to be the one member of the family for whom no flower is brought, for whose birthday no provision is made, for whose little wants, or great, no one cares? 

Hos 2:13 "I will punish her for the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the Lord.