Staying Broken (Jer. 1-9)
God raised up the prophet Jeremiah to speak truth to His stubborn, wayward people. When God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (1:5), He already knew that this youth would struggle in speaking the terribly hard truths that God would require of him, the truths that no one wanted to hear. Before his first assignment, God reassured Jeremiah that He had put His words in his mouth and that He had appointed him to speak His words (1:9-10) and that He was watching over His word “to perform it” (1:12). Jeremiah’s job according to God was “to pluck up and break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant” (1:10). How’s that for a calling? In light of that, I should have nothing to fear in God’s calling of my husband (and thus my family) to ministry, to shepherd His sheep wherever He will call us. No enemy armies will come against my people and camp at the gates of my city to destroy it (as far as I know