For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Here we go again, repeating good thoughts with the intention of discovering just how this plan is activated in our personal lives. Is God speaking to us?
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,
Jeremiah’s letter was sent to those who were in exile.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
If you have accepted Christ by faith you are no longer in exile.
- 2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, - Hebrews 8:6
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Before God declared a better future and a hope to the exiles, He warned them of the liars in their midst.
We are that better promise, we are that future and we are that plan enacted by faith in the works of Christ in HIs death, resurrection and ascension. We are not in exile.
The warning remains intact. There are still liars out there.
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.