It would be easy to believe that an individual human being is insignificant to God. After all, in the Book of Jeremiah, God is seen as planting empires like Babylon and plucking up nations like Judah. The Lord is involved with the great movements of history and epic wars. What is a solitary individual to Him? And yet, Jeremiah 45 reveals that God is just as aware and attuned to the life of one person as He is to all the rest that is raging around him.
Jeremiah has a word from the Lord for Baruch, his secretary. It is a word of comfort and promise: "...I am going to bring disaster upon all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as a prize of war in every place to which you may go" (vs. 5). God is going to take care of Baruch for his faithfulness as a servant to Jeremiah, and He wants him to know that his life is safe.
Just like Jesus would later say that the hair of our heads in numbered and even birds are of concern to God, so, too, does Jeremiah 45 teach us that we do not escape God's notice. He cares about each and every one of us. As the old gospel song reminds us, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me."
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