Prayer: Everlasting God, help us to trust what we do today may be for something long-range in planning but will come to be as you will. Amen
Reading: Jeremiah 32: 1-3a, 6-15 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: In our text today, Jeremiah buys up family property while it was still occupied by the Babylonians. What was he thinking? Doesn't seem like a sound investment except that God told him to do it and so Jeremiah showed faith that God would bring his people back. A worthless field now but it would grow valuable if, no, WHEN Jeremiah's heirs returned from exile. I heard on the news recently that a real Major League baseball game is going to be played on the Field of Dreams of the Kevin Costner movie by the same name. The whole premise of the movie was, "If you build it, they will come." By the end of the movie Hollywood style, they did come. Turns out they are going to in real life, too! Think of a time when what you were doing seemed outrageous but in long-range planning could, no, WOULD prove sensible. Is there something nudging you now? Long-range planning. It works out in the movies. It can work in real life. It's a good idea in God's will. -- Ruth Gates
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