Word for the Week

Seeking the welfare of those around us

Week beginning: 28th July, 2024 | By Mhairi Hamilton | LCF Director of International Ministries

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Jeremiah 29:4-7 (ESV)

When did we last pause to consider that our role in the office, chambers, court room or university may be where the Lord has called us to serve?

Following the fall of Jerusalem, Jeremiah wrote to the Israelites, who had been taken as captives to Bab