“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”
Tagged: Christian
The passage
God's call of Jeremiah begins before Jeremiah can speak for himself: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Where it stands
Jeremiah 1 is the prophet's call narrative, and it opens the book. The young Jeremiah answers that he does not know how to speak, and the rest of the chapter is God's answer to that objection, a pattern for every reluctant messenger who follows.
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