📣 Jeremiah 29:11 | The Wait Is Over

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In today’s email…

• 🤓 Reviewing what we learned this week

• 📣 A simple way to share your faith

• 🎙️ In case you missed it...

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MEMORIZE 🧠 

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Jeremiah 29:11

CONTEXT 📕 

We covered quite a bit of ground this week, so let’s recap the main points:

On Monday, we explored the historical setting of Jeremiah 29:11 —written to Israelites exiled in Babylon.

God’s message wasn’t an instant rescue but a call to seek peace, love their enemies and trust His plan (which involved waiting seventy years for restoration).

On Tuesday, we examined how context matters. Jeremiah 29:11 wasn’t written to individuals making career moves. It was a promise to a nation.

God’s faithfulness to redeem Israel reminds us that He is still in the business of redemption today. His plans are bigger than our own, and His Kingdom is our collective future as disciples of Jesus.

On Wednesday, we unpacked three key Hebrew words:

• visit you = paqad (God’s divine intervention)

• welfare/prosper = shalom (true peace and wholeness)

• future = acharith (a future shaped by God’s faithfulness)

Jeremiah 29:11 isn’t about immediate success. It’s about trusting God’s long-term plan, even when we don’t see it yet.

And on Thursday, we saw how Jeremiah 29:11 pointed to something greater than a return from Babylon but the ultimate redemption found in Christ.

Jesus rescues us from sin, gives us a true and eternal home, and invites us into God’s Kingdom.

APPLY AND RESPOND 🏃‍♂️ 

This breaks my heart.

Our friends, family, coworkers and neighbors who don’t know Jesus don’t have an eternal hope.

They either hope in the things of this world (which disappoint) or they lack hope altogether.

Deep down, they want their existence to have purpose. And they sense that this world can’t be all there is.

But most people will ignore the feeling of hopelessness and find ways to cope.

We are called to intervene - to go.

Here’s a challenge for you this weekend:

When you’re with a friend or family member (or a group of them) who doesn’t have eternal hope, ask a question like these and simply listen:

• When you face really difficult moments in life, what gives you a sense of hope?

• If someone asked you what you're building your life around - what gives your life meaning and direction - what would you tell them?

Listen deeply to their response rather than rushing to provide answers.

Their response will reveal areas where they may be experiencing the limitations or disappointments of worldly sources of hope, creating natural opportunities to share about the eternal hope you have in Christ.

COMMUNITY POLL

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 🎙️ 

Here are a few resources to help you dig deeper into this week’s passage:

• 📚️ A Commentary on Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann (link)

• 📚️ Jeremiah: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library) (link)

• 💻️ Jeremiah & Transformed Hearts: A Bright Spot in a Gloomy Book (link)

• 🖼️ Now that you know its context, putting Jeremiah 29:11 on your wall or in your house can remind you of God’s faithfulness (link)

• 📔 Christian Journal for Men (link)

• 🖊️ Prayer journal for women (link)

• 🎥 The Bible Project’s Summary of Jeremiah (link)

• 🎵 Jeremiah 29:11-13 by The Corner Room (Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube)

ANSWER KEY ✅ 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord,

plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11