If we choose to go to our hearts, embrace the Christ Presence we find there, and ask that God be revealed exactly where we are, then we can create wonderful good in the moment. And there is a great potential for good-for future and hope-wherever we are.
The truth is, God is with us, present within us, no matter where we are.
#JEREMIAH 29 VERSE11 HOW TO#
We spend time and waste energy trying to figure out how to get back to where we were. It's a strong lesson for us today, isn't it? We so often find ourselves wishing we were someplace else-in physical location, or in consciousness, or in terms of health or abundance. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:11-13 RSV). Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. God is with them wherever they are, the prophet insists, and God can do a great work through them in Babylon. Take wives and have sons and daughters take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters multiply there, and do not decrease" (Jeremiah 29:5-6 RSV). "Build houses and live in them plant gardens and eat their produce. Stop wailing and bemoaning, and set about making a life. Jeremiah's advice is, in essence, to fully embrace the new situation. Jeremiah sees it differently, and his advice is radically at odds with what others are saying. Some of their leaders are focusing on the shock of the situation, and agonizing over what might lie ahead, and how they can get back to their old places. This passage is part of a letter Jeremiah writes to the exiles in Babylon-the Hebrews who have been taken from their own land and are now living in a foreign place. When you search for me, you will find me if you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile" (Jeremiah 29:11-14). Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. If it doesn’t lead you or others to sin, and if it is a wise decision, do whatever you want! Generally, God does not have a detailed plan for your life."For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. He doesn’t care what parking space you choose or which outfit you should wear today. Listen, God doesn’t care what you do for a career – whether you should be an architect, doctor, teacher, or pastor. Part of that means that you can actually do things that you enjoy! What a concept! You are freed up to figure out how you are wired, develop those talents and gifts, and then deploy them into the lives of people around you. That means that once you know that your purpose is to love God and love others, then the adventure is discovering how that purpose plays out in your life.
God’s purpose for you is not based on what you do but moreso on who you are. The purpose of which God talks is for you to know Jesus and to grow to be more like Him in character and relationship. Jeremiah 29:11 Bible Verse Inspirational Religious Biblical phrase of. The Bible is clear that He does have a purpose for your life but not necessarily a specific plan. Christian Bible Verse Jeremiah 29 11 God Hope Future Faith Classic T-Shirt. It does not say that God has an individual plan for your life – like a blueprint of every moment you spend on the timeline of this earth. It reads,įor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.ĭoesn’t that change the “plans” part? Here’s what this verse is actually saying. I’ll spare you a theological treatise, but a better translation of Jeremiah 29:11 comes in the King James Version. What about that, God? And does that mean that I can goof up and step out of God’s plan and then work to get back on His plan for me?Īs you can tell, I’ve battled with this verse’s language-ing until I dug deeper into its context and its original Hebrew. Here’s my tension: If God has plans for me, plans that involve prosperity, hope, and protection, then what happened to God’s plans when my daughter, Makenzie died in a car accident a few years – moments – ago? This was her life verse and motivationally so! But what about the “not to harm you” part. And while many of you have this verse on t-shirts, bracelets, and small magnets on the doors to your fridge, I get frustrated thinking about it! Jeremiah 29:11-13New International Version. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'” – Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
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