"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". It sound brilliant, doesnt it. The truth is however that well meaning Christians frequently pay no attention to the context of this verse. This verse was for the people of Isreal who were taken captive to Babylon and for no one else. It is Jeremiahs letter in which he is telling them that there are false prophets saying that they will soon be delivered and Jeremiah is telling them the truth. They will remain in Babylon for 70 years and at the end of that time the lord would come and take them back and this verse was given to them so that they knew the lord had plans for the nation as indeed he did and at the end of the 70 years Daniel could see the exile coming to and end.
People treat this verse as if God wrote it to them personally. If I find a letter written to someone else and i see something in it that thrills me. I do not then assume the letter is written to me. It is a fact that it has been written to someone else, so why do we not read Gods word properly and apply it in the fashion that is intended?
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