puricare chronicles: JEREMIAH 29:11 - MISUSED AND MISUNDERSTOOD - God's plans for us are always good, but they are not necessarily easy, nor are they the plans we'd choose in our limited human thinking. Jeremiah 29:11 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty... Are your circumstances less than desirable? Make the best of them. Whether you see the results in your lifetime or not, God has a good plan for your life. - "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 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty... I stenciled it on the wall of my husband's office when he was working in the career planning and placement department at Columbia International University. "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- It's a wonderful, encouraging verse, but it doesn't mean what most folks think it means. We thought it was fitting for Bible college and seminary graduates looking for jobs, and it was. But not in the way many people understand. Jeremiah 29 is a message to the Jewish exiles in Babylon telling them to make the best of their captivity because God has a plan in allowing it. That captivity lasted 70 years, and many never lived to see it end.

Monday, January 11, 2021

JEREMIAH 29:11 - MISUSED AND MISUNDERSTOOD - God's plans for us are always good, but they are not necessarily easy, nor are they the plans we'd choose in our limited human thinking. Jeremiah 29:11 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty... Are your circumstances less than desirable? Make the best of them. Whether you see the results in your lifetime or not, God has a good plan for your life. - "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 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty... I stenciled it on the wall of my husband's office when he was working in the career planning and placement department at Columbia International University. "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- It's a wonderful, encouraging verse, but it doesn't mean what most folks think it means. We thought it was fitting for Bible college and seminary graduates looking for jobs, and it was. But not in the way many people understand. Jeremiah 29 is a message to the Jewish exiles in Babylon telling them to make the best of their captivity because God has a plan in allowing it. That captivity lasted 70 years, and many never lived to see it end.

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Jeremiah 29:11 - Misused and Misunderstood

God's plans for us are always good, but they are not necessarily easy, nor are they the plans we'd choose in our limited human thinking

Jeremiah 29:11 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty... Are your circumstances less than desirable? Make the best of them. Whether you see the results in your lifetime or not, God has a good plan for your life.

Gail Burton Purath

"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

Jeremiah 29:11 is a message of hope in the midst of difficulty, not a promise to free us from all difficulty...

I stenciled it on the wall of my husband's office when he was working in the career planning and placement department at Columbia International University.

"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

It's a wonderful, encouraging verse, but it doesn't mean what most folks think it means.

We thought it was fitting for Bible college and seminary graduates looking for jobs, and it was. But not in the way many people understand.

It's one of those phrases we Christians use like pieces parts without exploring the true meaning.

Jeremiah 29 is a message to the Jewish exiles in Babylon telling them to make the best of their captivity because God has a plan in allowing it.

That captivity lasted 70 years, and many never lived to see it end.

God's plans for us are always good, but they are not necessarily easy, nor are they the plans we'd choose in our limited human thinking.

Are your circumstances less than desirable? Make the best of them.

Whether you see the results in your lifetime or not, God has a good plan for your life. (Romans 8:28)

You can write that on the wall of your heart!

I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but

since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!
I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

https://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2013/04/not-those-plans.html

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