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After you finish reading today’s Scriptures, come back and read the essay here to dig deeper into the ways we see this specific promise at work in our day’s reading. Then join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect on and discuss what you’re learning!
This promise of purposeful plans is found within a letter sent by the prophet Jeremiah to the people of Judah after they had been taken into captivity by the nation of Babylon. This captivity, also known as the exile, was an expression of God’s judgment against the nation of Judah for their unfaithfulness to Him. Received early on in the exile, this letter encouraged the people of Judah to make their home in Babylon (Jr 29:4–7). But this challenging command was accompanied by the assurance of God’s purposeful plans for His people. These were plans for their “well-being, not for disaster, to give…a future and a hope”
(Jr 29:11), which included their restoration as a nation and their return from Babylon back to the promised land.
These promises were for the same nation through which the promised Savior would come. The good plans we get to trust in today are found in the redemptive plan of Jesus for us and our sin. We who had been exiled from the presence of God because of sin now have a future and a hope because of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.
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