The scripture for this week is found in Jeremiah 1: 4-10. Jeremiah was a prophet in Israel. Now you might say, “What is a prophet?” Well, a prophet was one who would foretell future events; he was one who’d receive a specific message from God to speak to people; and he was able to do this by the power of God. A person doesn’t just decide one day that they’re going to be a prophet. You had to have a calling from God to do this.

And it is in the midst of Jeremiah’s call to be a prophet that Jeremiah discovered something amazing about God. He discovered that God knew who he was. Now folks, we live in an    impersonal world. You can shop, do your banking, go to school and do your work in front of a computer screen with out ever having to speak to another person.

Living in such an isolated environment makes it difficult to imaging that there’s a God who truly knows who we are; who knows us on an  intimate level.

The bottom line in this all is that God comes to us. He initiates a relationship with us. It will cause us to come to a place of struggle, will we serve God and find the purpose for which we were born, or will we reject God and never experience the fulfillment in what we were     created to do .We were created to share the message of building up and planting. The     message of restoration and redemption to a world hungry to know that they are loved and cared for by the living God!! Will you share that message? Will you build others up in Christ? Will you tell the world of his love and mercy? Will you tell the world that He came to save, not destroy?

That is a lot to think about but we must do just that. Have a God filled week and I will see you in church.

Pam