The Life We Want - Week 5

WestGate Church Teaching

More than 600 years before Jesus, the Israelite people found their lives in confusing shambles. Their capital city, Jerusalem had fallen, their city had been sieged, and they were led off in chains as war captives far away from their home to Babylon. This was a judgment by God and from God - the previous leaders of Israel had abandoned God. But now, as people faithful to God, they expected God to bring them right back home. The prophet Jeremiah, however, delivered a message from God Himself that said something different, telling them to “seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.” God says to put down roots, and work for the good of the people around them, even if they’re Babylonians. “I’m up to something good,” God promises. We examine these prophetic words and find the call is the same to us, today. Work for the good of the city. And in doing so, we find that God is (again! still!) up to something good.