Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
For 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.
The wonderful thing about these words is that they were given to those Jews who had already been captured and taken to Babylon. There they were, strangers in a foreign land. They were captives; slaves. They were held against their will and their very lives were held at the whim of another.
Yet God assures them that His thoughts toward them were of peace and not evil. God had already determined what would be the outcome of their captivity and it was "an expected end." The word expected means "hoped for or longed for." The end God had for them was going to be a good one.
God's thoughts for His own are always thoughts of peace and not evil. As I heard in a sermon from David Sommerdorf on "The God of Abraham" the other day, God favors His children. As a child there are those times of discipline, correction and chastening; but they are always ordered by God to bring about a hopeful end and not a dreaded end.
We may trust our God. His thoughts toward us are good.
For 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.
The wonderful thing about these words is that they were given to those Jews who had already been captured and taken to Babylon. There they were, strangers in a foreign land. They were captives; slaves. They were held against their will and their very lives were held at the whim of another.
Yet God assures them that His thoughts toward them were of peace and not evil. God had already determined what would be the outcome of their captivity and it was "an expected end." The word expected means "hoped for or longed for." The end God had for them was going to be a good one.
God's thoughts for His own are always thoughts of peace and not evil. As I heard in a sermon from David Sommerdorf on "The God of Abraham" the other day, God favors His children. As a child there are those times of discipline, correction and chastening; but they are always ordered by God to bring about a hopeful end and not a dreaded end.
We may trust our God. His thoughts toward us are good.
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