God Provides: "God's Design for Hope" - Jeremiah's Call Exemple

More than 2,500 years ago, exiled Jews from Judah were eking out an existence in Babylon. No doubt some remembered how King Nebuchadnezzar had besieged Jerusalem in 605 B.C. and carried some of Judah’s gifted young men into exile. Later, more Babylonian troops transported additional Jews from Judah to Babylon and destroyed Jerusalem. God caused these events because He loved His people too much to abandon them to their sinful ways. He used their hardships to discipline and teach them to obey Him. Only then, He knew, could they find true hope and purposeful living. In Babylon, false Jewish prophets prophesied “false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds,” (Jeremiah 14:14 NIV) and evidently told the exiles not to serve the king of Babylon and his people. God, however, had other plans. As illustrated in this session’s film, God spoke encouraging and unusual words through the prophet Jeremiah that required the exiles to exercise great faith in God and do something unprecedented for exiles at that time in history to do.