Jeremiah is not saying, you will seek me and find me “then”, ie sometime in the future when you are back home; he is saying you will find me here and now. God has been set free from the confines of Jerusalem and its city in order to be found out there in what many of the exiles could only regard as a cold, tragic, God-forsaken situation. We must not assume from this that Jeremiah was against forms of worship or the Jerusalem Temple as such. These things could have been the means of grace for his