Jeremiah, Joseph, Paul all were SENT — by God — into conditions and circumstances that they would not have chosen themselves. YET — they grasped the goodness and glory of God while in and through the challenges that reflected the goodness and glory of God as they walked or sailed through it.
Jeremiah's life is 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 manifested: The means of the affliction was God. The mission to comfort and deliver life was from God. The ministry of sharing his life and struggles with the presence of God upon it all provided a great platform to transfer life.
WHEN GOD SENDS YOU... IT MATTERS!
How we deal with problems How we treat people How we handle pride.
From the prison to the palace... the work of a Master who never waste a stroke of His brush. 
 What matters? Everything... and if everything matters:
"First we ignore evil that we think doesn't relate to us. Then we allow that evil, that we think doesn't effect us. Then we let them legalize that evil that we think doesn't impact us. Then we say little to nothing, when they promote that evil, that once didn't bother us. Then we have something against that evil, that we didn't think much of, but they now celebrate that evil, bringing it to our front door demanding we embrace and enjoy it with them. Then we wonder why they persecute us when we think differently than they and call it an evil."
All the while we made it about ourselves, which is just as evil, as the evils they legalized, because we justified it, as long as it didn't impact our lifestyles.
Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put d
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