March 18

In Jeremiah 1:5 we get a glimpse of the pervasiveness of God’s provision for our lives and service to Him, of the completeness of His intent to reveal His will and His purposes through our lives. Here the Word states emphatically, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; and before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

Perhaps we have not been appointed as a prophet to the nations as was Jeremiah, but as with Jeremiah, God has a perfect purpose for every person ever formed in the womb. Each of us has a role to play in the accomplishment of the Kingdom purposes of the Lord and each of us must discover what we are to do if we are to be fulfilled, if we are to be complete.

Jesus came to earth that we might receive the salvation He provided at Calvary and He also gave the Holy Spirit to those who believe in Him in order that we might have the guidance we need to accomplish the purposes to which we have been called. He does not expect any of us to flounder aimlessly without the compass of the Holy Spirit to bring us to a full awareness of our Kingdom’s purpose.

As Jeremiah was emboldened to convey the strong message of the Holy One to a lost generation, as His words have redounded through the corridors of history to us in our lost-ness today, so we may be endued with power from on high to speak the hard sayings, to call our generation to focus on Christ! He is still saving the lost and empowering the faithful. We who love Him must be His voice in our generation.