God in the Past and Present | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 20, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:10.1 | The devotional for today titled God in the past and present was written by Matt Lucas. |
| 0:17.2 | It had been years since we had left the Oregon town where we raised our family. |
| 0:22.8 | We'd made great memories there, and the recent visit reminded me of moments I'd forgotten, |
| 0:28.7 | our girls' soccer games, our old home, church gatherings, and our friends' Mexican restaurant. |
| 0:36.2 | The town had changed, but there was enough of the familiar |
| 0:39.8 | to spark my desire to return for a visit. When the Israelites went into exile in Babylon, |
| 0:47.7 | they missed the familiarity of people, landmarks, and culture. They forgot they'd been exiled for rebelling against God. When false prophets |
| 0:58.4 | told the exiles they'd return home within two years, they found a receptive audience. It was easy |
| 1:05.4 | to listen to the slick words of false prophets who promised to return home soon. God didn't take kindly to these |
| 1:13.8 | peddlers of the past and their false promises. Do not let the prophets and diviners among you |
| 1:20.3 | deceive you, he said in Jeremiah 29. He had plans for his people, plans to give them hope and a future. |
| 1:28.3 | The situation was challenging, difficult, and new, but God was with them. |
| 1:34.4 | You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart, he told them. |
| 1:40.5 | God would bring them back to the place from which I carried you into exile, but in his timing. |
| 1:48.0 | Nostalgia plays tricks on the mind, making it easy to long for what once was. |
| 1:55.0 | Don't miss what God is doing right now. He will fulfill his promises. |
| 2:05.3 | Music right now. He will fulfill his promises. Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Jeremiah |
| 2:09.5 | 29, verses 8 through 14. Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says, do not let the prophets and diviners |
| 2:21.2 | among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. They are prophesying |
| 2:28.3 | lies to you in my name. I have not sent them, declares the Lord. This is what the Lord says. When 70 years are completed for |
| 2:38.6 | Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the |
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