Building an oasis in the desert.
Jeremiah 36:5-7
Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit. Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands; and be multiplied and not diminished. Seek the peace of the land into which I carried you captive. Pray to the Lord for them, for in its peace you shall have peace.
Encouraging Words...
As children of the Living God we are exiles from His kingdom as we live our lives in this temporal world. We do not live in His paradise but in the dry and barren land of His enemy. But just as God told His children in Israel to live full and complete lives, enlarging their number, while living under the captivity of the Babylonians, He tells us to do the same in our lives today. We can live full lives in His light, we can enlarge His Church, we can become a blessing to those around us who cherish this world and who may even be hostile toward us. Our charter, our calling, is to cultivate our lives in such a way that His kingdom, His paradise is manifest through us. Glory be to God!
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