Word for the Week

Week beginning: 29th September, 2013

By Timothy Laurence | Cambridge

"…Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.' "

Jeremiah 45:5 (NIV)

How easy to find ourselves seeking greatness in our own sphere! We want to thrive in ways that people will applaud. It is what drives most of the legal profession.

God's message to Baruch brought a different perspective. As Jeremiah's scribe his job