Jeremiah was the last of the great prophets to minister to the Hebrew people during the days of their political independence. His book is the longest prophetic book in the Hebrew Scripture. Because of the incredibly profound concepts which it contains, and because of the great spiritual advances which Jeremiah charted, he has been called by some the "greatest figure between Moses and Jesus."

In chapter 29, the prophet is writing to the exiles in Babylon. It is a message of hope, a message that contains within it something that had almost been forgotten, that is a message of having a future.

This section of Jeremiah is quite literally a letter of instruction. It is outlining for the captives in Babylon how to move ahead with their lives. The prophet here reminds the people that life canno…