For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jer 29, 11
An encouraging word that meets me right where I am.
You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart . . . - Jer 29, 13
Could there be any greater future and hope than this?
I'm not sure what this reading (Jer 29, 11-14) has to do with the principle of freedom, except that God has promised to deliver us from our exile. Christ has, of course, accomplished this for us.
If my "exile" is being enslaved to sin, and my freedom is being free to love God in the decisions I make, then yes, I am delivered.
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