{"id":7452,"date":"2016-03-12T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2016-03-11T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T05:05:23","slug":"your-limitations-dont-bother-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/12\/your-limitations-dont-bother-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Limitations Don&#8217;t Bother God"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The LORD gave me this message:<br \/>\n\u201cI knew you before I formed you in your mother\u2019s womb.<br \/>\nBefore you were born I set you apart<br \/>\nand appointed you as my prophet to the nations.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cO Sovereign LORD,\u201d I said, \u201cI can\u2019t speak for you! I\u2019m too young!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LORD replied, \u201cDon\u2019t say, \u2018I\u2019m too young,\u2019 for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you. And don\u2019t be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and will protect you. I, the LORD, have spoken!\u201d Then the LORD reached out and touched my mouth and said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I have put my words in your mouth!<br \/>\nToday I appoint you to stand up<br \/>\nagainst nations and kingdoms.<br \/>\nSome you must uproot and tear down,<br \/>\ndestroy and overthrow.<br \/>\nOthers you must build up<br \/>\nand plant.\u201d (Jeremiah 1:4-10)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeremiah had a realistic picture of himself.  But he did not have a realistic picture of God.  Jeremiah believed God was calling him; Jeremiah believed that God needed to do something about all the wickedness in the land.  But Jeremiah doubted that he could be the one that God chose to work through.  Jeremiah\u2019s lack of faith in himself, his lack of faith in God\u2019s ability to transform him into the mighty prophet he became, did not slow God down. Jeremiah already had a tongue, he could already talk.  Getting Jeremiah up and running was not nearly as hard a job as creating a universe from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah lived in a prosperous time. But a shadow hung over the land of milk and honey: the Babylonians were rising, while Egypt was declining.  The balance of power was shifting.  But the real problem had nothing to do with international relations.  Instead, God\u2019s concern lay with matters of the heart: his people had continued their long love affair with other gods.  And they didn\u2019t believe that God would ever do anything about it, any more than Jeremiah believed that God could use him.  Both God\u2019s people and Jeremiah would learn otherwise.  God is never limited by human doubts.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LORD gave me this message: \u201cI knew you before I formed you in your mother\u2019s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.\u201d \u201cO Sovereign LORD,\u201d I said, \u201cI &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/12\/your-limitations-dont-bother-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}