God's people are defeated, the temple ransacked and the brightest of their young people deported.

How can they believe in a God who lest Jerusalem fall? How can we believe in a God who gives our life circumstances to us?

How can the exiled people stay faithful to God in Babylon? How can we stay faithful to God in a hostile world

Questions

• God gives us our circumstances; can you follow such a God?
  • How does Jesus’ story help?
• Where are you in danger of assimilating into the world?
  • How could you resolve to stay faithful to God?