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In Jeremiah 1;4-5, Jeremiah was told that God had known and called him from before the womb to be a prophet. In today’s reading Jeremiah calls his birth a disaster. This is tantamount to rejecting his initial calling from God. Did God accept Jeremiah’s resignation? Even though Jeremiah seemed so disgusted and disappointed that he easily have chosen suicide to get out of God’s work, God’s response was God’s refusal to accept any kind of resignation from Jeremiah.
This could be a good sign for us, when we are disappointed and thoroughly and sorely bewildered by our lives, that God will continue to support us. No matter where we are in our journey, God s always ready to make us stand and not fall. God can and does rescue us from the grasp of the violent.
We have no record that Jeremiah had contemplated suicide, but God’s promise of support can be good news to those who are struggling with their own existence. God, who called Jeremiah from before conception and birth, has to power to call those contemplating suicide back to life and rescue them from death.
Jeremiah filed his complaints that God had abandoned him. God heard him and promised to rescue Jeremiah. God’s word can reach us, calling us out of despair and disillusionment into peace, rescue, and comfort.
God has chosen you, as God had chosen Jeremiah, from before conception and birth. No matter had bad things may seem today, God is able to strengthen your life and rescue you from all that threatens to harm you.