Seek Your City’s Good

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.

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0:00.0	April 23, seek your cities good.
0:05.8	Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile
0:12.4	from Jerusalem to Babylon, build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat their
0:19.3	produce, but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to
0:26.8	the Lord on its behalf.
0:29.1	For in its welfare, you will find your welfare, Jeremiah 29, 4 through 5 and 7.
0:38.9	If that was true for God's exiles in Babylon, it would seem to be even more true for Christian
0:45.9	exiles in this very Babylon-like world.
0:50.0	What then shall we do?
0:51.8	We should do the ordinary things that need to be done, build houses, live in them, plant
0:58.2	gardens.
1:00.5	This does not contaminate you if you do it all for the real king and not just for I service
1:06.1	as men-pleasers.
1:09.4	Seek the welfare of the place where God has sent you.
1:13.2	Think of yourself as sent there by God for His glory, because you are.
1:19.1	Pray to the Lord on behalf of your city, ask for great and good things to happen for
1:24.5	the city, ask that they happen by God's power and for His glory, never lose sight of
1:31.0	the ultimate good that the city needs a thousand times more than it needs material prosperity.
1:39.2	Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering.
1:45.4	That's the greatest danger every city faces.
1:49.7	But neither God nor His people are indifferent to the health and safety and prosperity
1:57.0	and freedom of the city.
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