Blooming Where You Are Planted (Jeremiah 17:7-8)

FBC CTX Growing in Grace Podcast · Oct 25, 2024 · 26m

Jeremiah 17 begins with a confrontation of Judah over the seriousness of their sin in the eyes of God by comparing it to something engraved with the point of a diamond. Their sin was also serious in terms of the drastic consequences they would soon encounter for their poor choices, namely exile “in a land that you do not know”.

So, how were they to live in exile in Babylon? Should they trust in man, or trust in the Lord? God gave the prophet Jeremiah two striking and contrasting images to motivate them to trust in Him rather than to trust in the flesh. If they lived by trusting in mankind…