A youth Calling

Jeremiah 1:1-10

What a timely study and I believe we must first look at John’s gospel the first four verses.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1-4) Jesus is that Word, and it was Jesus who is speaking to Jeremiah in the verses that follow.

“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”  That same Jesus they refused to bow a knee to is the same Jesus the U.S.A. and the western world is trying to ignore.  Our leaders would be wise to read the book of Jeremiah and see how that worked out.  But I would be wise to trust the words of Solomon in Proverbs 9:7, “Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.” 

If you are a dad or mother whose child has been mistreated you know how quick you are to make the ones who have harmed your child come to judgment, and yet some of you believe a woman has the right to take the life of her child, you are very foolish.   The United States killed more than 56 million American babies since Roe V. Wade was put into law in 1973.  What was God’s plans for these children, we will never know in this life, but this I know there has never been an unwanted child by God, but we do have many illegitimate parents?  God knew that you would be part of killing this child, and let me be quick to say that your sin is no greater than mine, so forgiveness is yours to ask for.  One child would be one too many, 56 million babies kill; America I fear for your coming judgment!

 Now, this very young man speaks to the LORD: “Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.  Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.”

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”  A very wise man once said these words, the Church needs to apply Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”

From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice