Hello, my fellow coffee and tea drinkers! This week I would like to speak to you about you. Who are you? What are you really like?
Throughout my life, I have met lots of people that struggle with their identity. From the young to the old. The truth is we are always growing in mind, body, and spirit. We are living breathing organisms that are always learning and adapting to the world around us. This week, I had the pleasure of speaking to a teenager that asked about strengthening his view of healthy masculinity. Granted as a woman, this is not an easy question. But in reality it isn’t easy for them either. Society as a whole creates the definition of what they think people should be like.
For example, some people believe that if you have a learning disability you will not ever be able to overcome it and will be stuck below grade level for all your life. That is complete NONSENSE!! Some of the greatest inventors of our time had learning disability and they changed the world as we knew it. This simple fact disproves a thought processes that still exist in society today. So, if we know that society is not always right why do we allow society to define us and give us our identity?
Personally, I would rather someone I really know give me their impression of my identity than a society that is easily swayed by popular trends. For me that person is the Lord.
In Jeremiah 1:4-5 the Lord came to Jeremiah with a word that made it clear that the Lord KNEW him. To know someone, we are aware of the truth or factuality of that person. That meant that the Lord KNEW Jeremiah. The Lord also knew the task that Jeremiah would be chosen for and as such had set Jeremiah on a path that he would be made prepared for his call (mission) and that the Lord would be there for him as well. In some versions it says the word Chosen. To be Chosen before birth.
The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[a] you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”~ Jeremiah 1:4-5
In several other places throughout the bible, accounts of the Lord knowing people before birth are mentioned. If knowing someone means being aware of the truth or factuality of a person, shouldn’t that person (the Lord) be the one we listen to before a society that doesn’t?
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