It’s been quite a while since I have posted anything on here, but I’ve been quite busy with youth ministry summer fun, statistics class, and many other things it seems. Over the last couple of weeks though God has been continually sending a message to my heart that I must share. It’s a difficult one to hear as well, but I pray that God will open your mind and heart to Him today as He speaks to you. Let me start with a prayer.
Holy God, May the words that I type be your words and not mine. I pray that you speak through me and that all that read this will have an open heart to you and you alone God. In Jesus name, Amen.
So to start things out I would like to share a passage with you from Jeremiah. Starting in verse 4.
The Lord gave me this message:
“I knew you before I formed you in your
mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
There is something that we as human beings always struggle with I think. That is what God thinks about us. Now I caution you, it might not be what you think. In this first part of Jeremiah God is talking to Jeremiah and giving him a rather big message. “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
Can you just imagine Jeremiah’s reaction? Can’t you picture what facial expression he has in response to this call from God? We know from reading on what happens next. Let’s continue in verse 6.
“Ah, Lord God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak because I’m only a child.”
The Lord responded,
“Don’t say, ‘I’m only a child.’
Where I send you, you must go;
what I tell you, you must say.
Don’t be afraid of them,
because I’m with you to rescue you,” declares the Lord.
Even in Jeremiah hesitation he still recognizes that God is his Lord, but he is hesitant all the same. This causing no hesitation in the Lord. The Lord is faithful all the same. The love that God has for his children is overwhelming isn’t it?
God says to Jeremiah that he knew him before he existed, and he loves him. The very knowledge of that has kept me baffled for the past two weeks. I think about myself and I think that I am not qualified to be His voice at times and I am sure that you know what that feels like. Cause I believe that we all question that call that God has placed on all our lives. To be his children. The next part in this passage really just takes it to another level.
Then the Lord stretched out his hand,
touched my mouth and said to me,
“I’m putting my words in your mouth.”
Wow. The mere imagery of God touching Jeremiah’s mouth and placing His words on his mouth. See God understands that even as He is saying Don’t be afraid that Jeremiah will be scared out of his mind, so God takes it to another level by placing the very words that Jeremiah would use to speak to the nation of Israel.
Ok here’s the hard part.
God does this everyday. In all our lives. He places his words on our mouths so that we are prepared to speak and be a representative of God himself. That very knowledge is overwhelming to us and almost immediately we put our guard up because we can’t seem to understand why God would choose someone like us.
But He does. Everyday.
So, what do we do?
“The Lord will fight for you, all you have to do is BE STILL.”
Be still and know that God is God and He knows what your capable better than you or anybody else that exists. He loves you with a love that completely covers and envelopes you. Trust in that Love. Embrace that Love. Because God is a God that longs for us. So…..
“Be still and know.”