Jeremiah 17-18

My senior year in high school, my best friend surprised meHe said, “I don’t think I can justify bringing a child into this world”- that was something I was still looking forward to enjoying,• getting married and some day having children◦ I knew about war and poverty and race riots and assassinations and environmental pollution• but my outlook was not so bleak as to rule out children- what God is describing in this passage is just that bleak!• there was no future for the people of Judah◦ if they had children now, it would be only for them to die• God was watching out for Jeremiah,◦ but he was using Jeremiah’s situation as an illustration