In this episode, Erin guides us through Lectio Divina with Jeremiah 29:4-9. During these difficult times around the world as many fight illness, loss of jobs or income, social isolation, and numerous other issues, you are invited to take a few minutes to be present, enter silence, hear Scripture, and listen for how God might be speaking to you today.
May this passage bless you and encourage you wherever you are today.
Jeremiah 29:4-9 (The Message)
4 This is the Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel’s God, to all the exiles I’ve taken from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 “Build houses and make yourselves at home.
“Put in gardens and eat what grows in that country.
6 “Marry and have children. Encourage your children to marry and have children so that you’ll thrive in that country and not waste away.
7 “Make yourselves at home there and work for the country’s welfare.
“Pray for Babylon’s well-being. If things go well for Babylon, things will go well for you.”
8-9 Yes. Believe it or not, this is the Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel’s God: “Don’t let all those so-called preachers and know-it-alls who are all over the place there take you in with their lies. Don’t pay any attention to the fantasies they keep coming up with to please you. They’re a bunch of liars preaching lies—and claiming I sent them! I never sent them, believe me.” God’s Decree!
