March 13, 2011
Despise Not Your Youth
Then said I: "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth." But the said to me: "Do not say `I am a youth,' for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak."
~ Jeremiah 1:6-7
"Jeremiah was young and felt a natural shrinking when sent upon a great errand by the Lord; but He who sent him would not have him say, "I am a youth." What Jeremiah was in himself must be lost in the consideration that he was chosen to speak for God, and he would be enabled to do so in strength not his own.
God know how young you are, and how slender your knowledge and experience; but if He chooses to send you somewhere, it is not for you to shrink from the heavenly call. God will magnify Himself in our feebleness. If you were as old as Methuselah, how much would your years help you? If you were as wise as Solomon, you might be equally as willful as he. Keep to your message and it will be your wisdom; follow your marching orders and they will be your discretion." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)
Despise Not Your Youth
Then said I: "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth." But the said to me: "Do not say `I am a youth,' for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak."
~ Jeremiah 1:6-7
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| When you pray and ask God to help you, and get no response from Him, it doesn't mean that He didn't hear you. When God, is silent like that, it just means that He is at work on something. |
God know how young you are, and how slender your knowledge and experience; but if He chooses to send you somewhere, it is not for you to shrink from the heavenly call. God will magnify Himself in our feebleness. If you were as old as Methuselah, how much would your years help you? If you were as wise as Solomon, you might be equally as willful as he. Keep to your message and it will be your wisdom; follow your marching orders and they will be your discretion." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)
Sometimes when we hear God, and He tells us to go and do something, usually it has something to do with trying to save someone's soul or to keep someone from making a decision that might cause them their life. When we hear the call of the Lord, it is our duty as a child of God to follow through with what He told us to do. Not only are we helping someone, but we are helping ourselves has well. When we obey God's commands He finds joy and delight in that, and gives us His blessing in all things that we do for His sake.
ReplyDeletePLEASE PRAY THIS PRAYER WITH ME THIS MORNING. OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. FORGIVE US OF ALL OUR SINS, OUR DEBTS, AND OUR TRESPASSES AGAINST YOU AND MAN; AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE INDEBTED TO US, AND THOSE WHO HAVE TRESPASSED AGAINST. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM ALL EVIL:FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE HONOR, AND THE GLORY, FOREVER. IT IS IN CHRIST JESUS' PRECIOUS NAME, AMEN!
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