I was talking to some Youth Pastor friends the other day, some of us are at a crossraods in our ministry. Some of us feel like we have been through the fire and others are just struggling to know where God is calling them. We were talking about when we feel like we are in exile and how in Jeremiah when the chosen were in exile God gives them a promise from Jermiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." He doesn't say that it's going to be easy or short but we know that God has a plan in it all. We talked about how we never like going through the exile but that is the time when we can draw close to the Lord and learn what those plans are. For some the exile is short and for others it's long. We can learn a lot from Jeremiah and hope that our exile isn't 70 years!!
