We are talking about how to have a heart for the city. In the lesson this morning we looked at the first seven verses of Jeremiah 29 where Jeremiah writes a letter to the exiles who have been captured and now living in Babylon. Jeremiah tells them how they are to live while in Babylon. We noticed that they were to settle in the city, seek the welfare of the city, and pray for the city while they lived in Babylon. We drew the same conclusions for us while we wait for the return of Jesus. But there were more directions that God gave through Jeremiah in this letter. There was more about how to have a heart for the city and be the people God calls us to be while we wait for God’s return. So open your copies of God’s word back to Jeremiah 29 and we are going to look at the rest of this chapter. As you are turning to Jeremiah 29 I want us to think about the difficulty of what Jeremiah has told the people to do. It can be hard to wait for God to come return them to their home. It can be hard to seek the welfare of the city and pray for it when you see the wickedness of the city. So how to do we wait and how can maintain these commands while we wait?

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