BLOOM WHERE PLANTED
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.
Personal Challenge
Just as the Israelites of old, we who follow Jesus, are exiles into a land that is not ours to claim. Paul calls us ambassadors. As a follower of Jesus, our true home is the Kingdom of God and this temporal home is where we have been placed to live out our physical lines until that precious day when we are taken to our true home. We are told by Jeremiah that God wants us to live to our fullest capability in this land that is not ours so that we can be images of Him to those around us. We do this as ambassadors to win over others to Him that they too might choose to be His. Glory be to God!
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