Chapter 29 in Jeremiah tells of the Jewish exiles in Babylon refusing to believe Jeremiah’s earlier Word from the Lord (Jeremiah 25:11), that they would be banished from Jerusalem for seventy long years. It also didn’t help that there were among them false teachers deceiving them with lies they wanted to hear. (Jeremiah29:27-31) Thus, the exiles were living like they were just on a short vacation, and that they’d soon be leaving Babylon to go home. Many times, we too can get a notion in our head of how God should be working…rejecting His plans for ours…His Will for our selfish desires. But in the end, God is sovereign, so as Jeremiah told the exiles, accept God’s Will and live accordingly.
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