The Insight of Jeremiah 29:11

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 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)

Many Christian loves to quote this bible verse especially in times of trouble in their lives. Believe me, I do too. Whenever I am believing for His promise, His blessing and His favour, I love to quote this verse.

One day when I was in desperate situation and I tried to read out loud this verse again, I felt God asked me to read from verse 10.

10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 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 29:10-11 (NIV)

I meditated on verse 10 for a bit of time and tried to understand. Then I received a new revelation that I would like to share to you.

This book is talking about when Israelites were in the exile. They were in Babylon for quite sometimes. And from the story, we know how desperate the Israelites were to get out from Babylon. But they had to stay there for 70 years which has been appointed by God.

The word ‘Babylon’ for us now is representing the state or situation that we have to endure or trials and challenges that we have to face. Nobody likes to have ‘Babylon’ in our lives. We want to go back to our ‘place’ as soon as possible.

This verse 10 simply says that God has set an amount of time for His people should live in Babylon and when the appointed time has been completed then God will come to them and fulfil His good promises.

So for us that are in our ‘Babylon’ right now and we are waiting for His promises to come to pass, we should know that unless the appointed waiting time by God has been completed, He is unable to rescue and fulfil His promise to us.

Now this waiting time could be 70 years or 7 years or 7 months or 7 weeks or 7 days, or whichever length of time that God has appointed to each of us.

We just have to wait and wait tirelessly for God to come to us and to fulfil His promise to us. And when the time comes we will glorify Him for His goodness and faithfulness.

Thank you and I hope this sharing will bring blessing to you.


Comments

  1. Pit Djan11 January 2021 at 12:52

    Yes, I also love to quote this bible verse Jeremiah 29:11.
    Looking at Jeremiah 29:10, it definitely give me a new revelation of hope that God will bring me back to Jerusalem after going through my “Babylon”.

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