"Happy New Year 2025"
I chose this verse for New Year's Day because it speaks of "future" and "hope." Not only a future and a hope but a blessing wherein God says he plans to prosper and not harm us. Happy Day! Life is going to be a piece of cake from now on. I will have a ton of money and be joyous in the future that awaits me. Well, it may not be that easy. As I read a few commentaries on this verse, I found that Jeremiah was writing to God's people who were in exile. They did not have a carefree life; they were outcasts. At that time, this verse was a blessing of comfort to the people who received it, as it was for me when I faced the betrayal at the hands of my husband and the demise of my decade's long marriage. I leaned heavily on this verse to get me through each day, each minute. I do believe in the context of the scripture and that God does want us to have a wonderful future and hope for each day. In one writing, I found that to prosper means to grow...