Dale Pollard
Jeremiah was a man who faced many challenges and hardships. He was someone who was intimate with failure and let down— but God’s reminder to him is the same for us today. He was designed with a purpose before he was born.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jer. 1.5).
All humans are premeditated in their formation but are born first in the mind of God. That’s something worth thinking about. Our minds are incomprehensible in their complexity and our bodies came stock with a piece of eternity called the “soul.”
The King of Kings had a hand in every atom that makes up the body.
According to ancestry.com,
“Your DNA could stretch from the earth to the sun and back ~600 times.”
Suzanne Bell is a chemist at West Virginia University and she estimates that a 150-pound human body contains about 6.5 octillion (that’s 6,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms.
Jeremiah’s job was to speak on behalf of God to the people of his day. He was created for that purpose. Today our job is the same. A prophet is simply a mouthpiece for God and we were created to be a mouthpiece on behalf of the same God for the people of our day. The Bible tells us that He has a huge heart for the helpless. How is abortion even a thing? The most helpless are killed before they even see sunlight and God’s people shouldn’t get desensitized to that sort of evil. Speak up for the little guys (and girls).
You remember when the Bible actually recorded a reaction from the unborn baby’s perspective?
“And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 1.41).
We’re all fearfully and wonderfully made, according to Psalm 139:13-14, and that includes the unborn.
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