#10He Is Able
I cannot speak: for I am a child.
the Lord said unto me,
Say not, I am a child:
for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,
and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."
Jeremiah 1:6-7
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#10He Is Able
I cannot speak: for I am a child. the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak." Jeremiah 1:6-7 |
| THE Lord told Jeremiah that, even before he was born, He had called him and ordained him to be a prophet unto the nations. Immediately Jeremiah told the Lord that he just could not do it, he was too small, only a child, and that he could not even speak, but then the Lord spoke to Jeremiah and told him what he could do and what he was going to do. Probably the reason that the Lord was able to use Jeremiah in such a wonderful way was the fact that Jeremiah felt himself so unequal to the task, and so unfit for the Lord's work. They are about the only kind of people the Lord has ever been able to use anyhow to really bring forth fruit for His glory. When we look at the task before us from the human standpoint we can see nothing but complete failure, but when we look at it from the Lord's viewpoint we cannot see anything but success. When humanly looking ahead, we see men as giants, but when we look ahead in the power of the Lord, we see giants as pygmies. The Lord had no trouble at all killing Goliath by the hand of David; the Lord was able to lead a million Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, by the use of a shepherd's crook and Moses, the stammerer, the man who fled to the backside of the desert because of fear. Surely, "not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence." (1 Cor. 1:26-29) That is the reason God could use a man who had been an unlearned fisherman to be His great messenger to preach the sermon on the day of Pentecost. Jeremiah said "I cannot speak," but God said, "Thou shalt speak." Jeremiah must have thought that he was too little, but God made known to him that the smaller he was in his own sight the more able he was to be used. From that day forth Jeremiah went out in the strength and fear of the Lord, having no fear for man. He was willing to suffer shame, even so much as to be cast into a dungeon, for the sake of the Word of the Lord.
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ALL ABOUT THE AUTHOR Evangelist and Pastor, Dr. Marvin Lewis
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