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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. One of the most popular verses that people memorize and want to use as a life verse is
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- Jeremiah 29 11. And it says, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the
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- Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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- And so many people love that because it sounds so good. But let's read things in context because, again, we want to see who is this written to.
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- But if we look at the context just a few verses down, you see some of the same language in verses 18.
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- It says, And I will pursue them with sword, famine, pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them.
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- Wow, how come no one wants that as their life verse? See, people take chapter 29 verse 11 because they like the way it sounds.
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- But is this a promise to you? Well, verse 10 tells us that.
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- Let's look at the context and see who it is that Jeremiah is writing to. He says in verse 10,
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- For thus says the Lord, When seventy years are complete for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
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- In other words, this was written to the Jewish people who were taken into captivity in Babylon.
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- After seventy years, they returned. So if you're not part of that seventy -year Babylonian captivity, then this verse isn't directly to you.
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- But what does it apply to you? Well, it shows that God is faithful. That's something that we can hold on to.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
