Think back with me, to all the places where you’ve lived. How did those places BENEFIT from you living there, attending school there or working there or retiring there?Is it a fair expectation for God to have of His people that the PLACES where He plants us to live will be blessed by our presence there? This weekend let’s continue reading a very important letter the prophet Jeremiah wrote to thousands of Jewish captives living in exile in Babylon about 2600 years ago.
Like most refugees, these Jewish captives were angry to have been hauled away from their homeland Jerusalem, even though, if they were honest with themselves, they must admit God had warned them and they had rejected God’s warning, thus they were living God’s judgment.