"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
Before you were born, before you even existed in your mothers womb, before your parents even knew you existed, and honestly before your parents existed I KNEW YOU
stop and think about those words
I- meaning Jehovah, the I AM, the God of the universe, the creator of everything in existence
Knew- to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty
You- that is You individually, that's not You like a general everyone, it means each and every single person on this earth, YOU
before I created YOU I knew YOU
God knew exactly what he was doing when he created Jeremiah, before he ever existed God said I am going to create a young man and I am going to set him apart and give him a specific purpose on this earth.
The truth is that God HAS called you as well.
Before he formed you in the womb God had a plan and a purpose for your lives.
It is so important for us to realize this, but often we stop there.
Sometimes we need to focus on the I rather than the YOU
Its very easy to only focus on the part of that scripture that pertains to us. The part where it says God has a plan for ME, and God wants to bless ME, and God wants to protect ME
Our First Resolution for 2010 is to Recognize who God is
One way that we are able to identify who God is, is by looking at what He has created.
Its not identifying who we are, what we want, and how God is going to do everything for me.
We already know all about ME, about who we are, its time that we start focusing on who God is
if we are ever really going to discover the purpose that God has for each one of our lives, we first have to really understand the one who gave us that purpose in the first place.
In the book of Isaiah chapter 40, God asks
25"To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
The truth is there is no one you can compare our God to, there are none who are is equal.
Yet that same God knows each one of us by name, has set each one of us apart, and has a unique purpose for each one of us!
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
The Video below does a great job of expressing that reality of the "hugeness" of our God.
