"Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations-that's what I had in mind for you." (The Message)
Wow, God told Jeremiah, that he had a plan for him from the very moment of his conception. Imagine growing up and realizing that God had big plans for your life, a plan for you to be significant, and change the world you live in. Have you ever thought about your life, what God's plan for you is? I can honestly say that I have more than once, and I can honestly say, I don't feel like a Jeremiah, actually I don't feel like any Biblical hero, I feel inadequate on all counts.
I have made so many missteps, fallen, and not lived the way I should have earlier on in my life, and made decisions based on the stronghold that was in my life, that I can't see how God can still use me as broken as I am. Yet His word says He knew me before I was conceived, and knew all about me! Why am I saying all this? To let you know that none of us ever feel as if we are on a path to change the world, but we are on a path to change the corner of it we live in. Our families, friends and acquaintances, we can impact them, and by extension the world that they live and work in.
Don't let your past failures, dictate your current situation, give all that to God, and live for Him, and grow. I can say that the person I have been, God has healed, torn down the strongholds in my life and made me a different person, the best version of me I have ever been. I only wished I had had this version earlier, so that I would not have hurt the people in my past and in my family. I am grateful, for what God is doing in my life and I am going to reach those I can until my life on this earth comes to a close.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Eric
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