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Jeremiah 1:5

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

It is amazing to me that God chose Jeremiah to be His prophet even before Jeremiah was formed in the womb. Jeremiah did not have a say in what his duty in life will be just as he could not choose who his parents will be. It points out one very important truth: our lives are not ours; they are God's. It shows that the God is indeed Lord and sovereign over our lives. This should be a liberating truth. Consider that there is no Lord like our God. Let us not grumble at the lot the Lord has allotted us but rather rejoice knowing that we have a perfectly good, gracious Lord.