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November
5, 2020
#LiveYourLife
Let
neither the Donkey nor the Elephant distracts you; live your lives. The LORD
God is on His throne. [
Our
Brother who led the worship service read from Jeremiah 29:1-7 and exhorted us
to live the lives the Lord God has called us to live regardless of the external
circumstances, e.g. whichever political party is in power. What an apt reminder! Could anything be worse than Judah being
cast away into idolatrous Babylon?
Jeremiah 29
¶1
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from
Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and
to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar
had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
2
(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of
Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from
Jerusalem;)
3
By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon) saying,
4
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away
captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
5
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of
them;
6
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and
give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye
may be increased there, and not diminished.
7
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away
captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have
peace.
Babylon
can be a haven too if you will walk humbly before the sovereign LORD; just live
according to His instruction, the same as you should in your imagined promised
land, ye shall have peace, no less.
