Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t do it! I will bring great disaster upon all these people; but I will give you your life as a reward wherever you go. I, the LORD, have spoken!’”

Jeremiah 45:5

God assures Baruch he will be spared and have life despite the Babylonian takeover.

Our world is headed for the same destruction, yet through Christ we can be confident of life everlasting, beyond this world, and life abundant on while we dwell on this side of Heaven.

• But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  Matthew 6:33 (KJV)

• The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
  John 10:10 (KJV)

• As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
  2 Corinthians 4:18 (ESV)

• So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  1 Corinthians 10:31 (ESV) 

• Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
  Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV)

• Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
  Colossians 3:23 (ESV)

“Baruch happens to be the only man from the Old Testament who has been fingerprinted. In 1975 a group of archaeologists purchased some clay document markers from an Arab antiquities dealer. The archaeologists did not decipher the markers – which were the bookmarks of the ancient world – until 1986. When they did, they discovered that one of them bears the seal of Baruch son of Neriah. Since then, another document marker has been discovered that bears not only Baruch’s seal, but also a thumbprint, very probably the thumbprint of the scribe himself.” - Phillip Graham Ryken

What am I seeking?