Did you ever wonder what you were going to be when you grow up? Some of us are probably still wondering what we will be when we grow up. We dream about being astronauts, or firemen or women, or police men or women, or the President of the United States. Maybe we wanted to be a carpenter, or a brick layer. My brother wanted to be a garbage man because the trucks were really cool. Or at least that is what he thought when he was 7.
We all have dreams and wonder about what our lives will be. In todays lesson Jeremiah hears, as we hear too, the call of God on his life. God says to all of us, “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.” Before you were born I knew you, God says to you. You are consecrated as a prophet not just to your people, but to the nations, to everyone. And to this Jeremiah (just as all of us would) balks, “but I am just a boy and subject to my parents, what can I do, I can not even speak.”
And then God gives the most important words from this passage. “I have touched you and put my words in you, you will go where I send you and say what I give you. I will be with you and always guide you as my hands and feet.” God told Jeremiah he was in control, and knew what was going to happen. Can we trust God, to follow where he leads and not where we want? Can we trust God to give us the words to say and not speak what we know is right or true?
Dear daddy God, help us to trust you as a baby trusts his parents, for everything. Help us to give you our lives knowing that you have our lives in your hands, and that is the best place they can be. Amen.
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