Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: "Because you have not listened to my words, I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon," declares the Lord, "and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. "But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt," declares the Lord, "and will make it desolate forever.
(Jeremiah 25:8, 9, 12 NIV)
God will use people for his purposes. God uses those who follow him and those who do not know him. In Genesis God used the evil that the sons of Israel committed against their brother Joseph for his good purposes. Here God uses this gentile king of Babylon to accomplish his purpose to destroy Judah and Jerusalem. Yet later God will also use kings who do not know or follow him to rebuild and pay for the restoration of Jerusalem the city they destroyed.
God you are sovereign. I don't understand your plans or how you work. But I want to trust you.
Thank you Lord for your good plans and working them out despite our sin.
God I hope in your plans and your salvation to our true home with you.
Amen
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