Jeremiah 1:6
--TheSecretPlace--
I love this passage of Scripture!!! Honestly, just digging through it has been so wonderful. The LORD has so much to teach us through His Word, and I want to encourage all of you to get into every day! Every time you get a chance, I encourage you to plunge yourself into it.
When I read over this verse today the first thing I thought about is that when we criticize or even discourage ourselves we are pulling away from, and criticizing the LORD's handiwork. Here is Jeremiah, and he is probably my age, around 15 or 16 maybe older maybe younger, and to me it seems like he is not very confident in who he is, or in what he was made for. Who knows who criticized him, and who knows who built him up if anyone did. Where were his parents? Where were his friends? He needed to be encouraged, and he needed to be told by one who knew Him-who he was, and there was only one who could do that.
So the LORD spoke to Jeremiah, and told him who he was. We know that Jeremiah needed the LORD to tell him these things, but why did the LORD need tell him that he knew him before he was formed? Why would God need tell him that he was set apart before he was born?
Jeremiah felt like a nobody, and he felt insignificant, and you can tell he did by the way he spoke to the LORD saying "I am only a youth" Jeremiah thought so little of himself and thought himself disqualified because of his age. But the LORD made known to him how HE felt about Jeremiah, and the LORD put His words in Jeremiah's mouth, and that is what we all need. We need to be told by the LORD who we are, and as much as we tend to not like it, we need to be rebuked-corrected in all of our wrong thinking, because when we look down on OURSELVES, and we criticize ourselves, and anyone else for that matter, we are criticizing the work of the LORD, and we need to understand that no matter what our weaknesses, and no matter how problematic we think we are, we need to know and understand that, our weaknesses do not disqualify us from the work the LORD has for us to do, or the plans he has for our lives.
The LORD knows us, and He is the one who formed us, and He formed us to do a great work. No matter how insignificant it may seem to be. We do not need to belittle the LORD because we do not see how the work He has called us to do is great, we need to trust, and surrender to His leading, and just believe that what He calls us to do does make an impact, and it is important.
I believe we need to get a firm grip around 1 Corinthians 1:27
For God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
The LORD loves to use weak, and broken people, and we are all weak, and broken, so I do believe you and I are just the people He looks for.
And once the LORD told Jeremiah who he was, he had the confidence to do what he was being called to do. When the LORD spoke to him who he was, and what he was created for Jeremiah was encouraged, and he was strengthened! The LORD wanted him to know that He LOVED to use him just the way, and just the age he was, and I believe the LORD is saying the very same thing to us.-To my generation, and ALL of the generations no matter how weak we are--because the LORD knows we are weak.
The LORD wanted Jeremiah to know how valuable he was to the LORD even in his weakness, and when Jeremiah began to walk in his identity as one fully, and completely known by the LORD-the God of the universe, and when he began to walk as one set apart by the LORD-before he was even born, Jeremiah was strengthened in the LORD to do the work he was called to do, and he walked before the LORD, and men with confidence.
This is what Jesus is even wanting us to do, He wants us to believe that He has chosen us to do a great work, and He wants us to believe that He will strengthen us, and empower us to do what He has called us to do even in our weaknesses, no matter how hard it may seem to be.
My prayer is that you would wrestle with the LORD, and seek for your calling, and how the LORD wants to use you-Because He does want to use you, even if it is just by loving people.
---Intercession---
Lord Jesus, I pray that You would reveal Yourself to us, and show us how You want to use us, and reveal to us new ways to love others better. We love you so much, and I just ask that You would rend the heavens, and come and reveal Yourself to Your bride. We love You! In Jesus' Name.So Be It.
Be blessed, and found in the LORD!
Kasey
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