Should you then seek great things for yourself?

Jeremiah 45:1-5
A message to Baruch, the Lord said through Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim.
Baruch had written on a scroll the words Jeremiah was then dictating. 'Woe to me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.'
The Lord said,"Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all people, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life."       'but your life will be spared wherever you go.'
This short chapter connects with chapter 26, the writing of the scroll in 605. Baruch shared something of Jeremiah's distress. God promises he will escape the coming slaughter in the 'tearing down' and 'puling up' of what God has built and planted. That must suffice. This promise comes true in 43:5-6
Why?
My life is in hands of God, under that generation, the Lord's wrath was poured out  on Israel, everything was ruined, how can we seek great things for ourselves, the Lord won't permit.
The Lord save his servant's life under any situation. Even prophet Jeremiah had not rest in his life, suffered many pain.
How?
Do not seek great for myself but for the Lord. I am servant of the Lord.