Jeremiah 24:5 · World English Bible
Jeremiah 24:5 Meaning Yahweh
Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
What does Jeremiah 24:5 mean?
Whether a disaster teaches a person or simply breaks them is settled by what they decide it was for. The meaning assigned to a season of loss sets the state a person lives in while it lasts, and the state decides what their hands do.
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Whether a disaster teaches a person or simply breaks them is settled by what they decide it was for.
The meaning assigned to a season of loss sets the state a person lives in while it lasts, and the state decides what their hands do. Called punishment, exile produces shame, and shame waits to be released. Taken as something God sent for good, those same years produce purpose, and purpose plants gardens in foreign soil.
The ones left standing in Jerusalem kept their address and stayed exactly as they were, while the ones who lost everything were the ones being built. A person who insists the worst thing happened to them rather than for them keeps every hour of the pain and collects nothing from it.
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Live Jeremiah 24:5 today
- Take the hardest season you are in and write down one thing it is building in you, even if you cannot see the point of the whole thing yet.
- Ask someone who came through something similar what they would not have without it. Let their answer sit with you on the drive home.
- When today's version of the hard thing shows up, the diagnosis, the money, the silence from someone you love, catch the word happened to me and try happening for me, then act like it is true for the next hour.
If this season came for your good, what would you start doing differently today?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to a person they are not built to carry. The weight is real, and so is what carrying it makes of you.
Taoism · the farmer and the horse
The farmer who loses the horse does not yet know whether it was bad luck. Only the end of the story decides, and the story is not finished.
Sufism · Rumi
The field has to be broken open before anything can be planted in it. What feels like being torn is often being prepared.
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