Jehovah is the tenderhearted God, and in being tenderhearted, Jeremiah was absolutely one with God; thus, God could use the prophet Jeremiah, an overcomer, to express Him, speak for Him, and represent Him, even in his weeping. Crystallization Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, Key Statement
Jeremiah was born a priest, but God called him to be a prophet not only to the nation of Israel but also to all the nations; therefore, Jeremiah was a priest-prophet (Jer. 1:1, 48).
Jeremiah was not only a young man, maybe even less than twenty years of age when he was called, but he was also a timid and sensitive person; yet God sent such a prophet forth to speak what was on God’s heart.
Jeremiah was a priestly prophet appointed by God to pluck up and break down, to build up and to plant. Everything negative – everything of Satan, sin, and the world – must be torn down.
Along with this tearing down, we have Jehovah’s building up and His planting, both of which involve His word.
The Lord speaks a word, and He tears down, destroys, and He also builds up and plants; God’s word is a building up of Christ and a planting of Christ, and this is all for the exalting of Christ!
We may be like Jeremiah, quite timid and fearful, but the Lord calls us, He appoints us to be both a priest and a prophet, and He wants us to speak His word!
No matter how shy or timid we are, no matter how dismayed we may be with our situation or with the situation of God’s people, when the word of God comes to us, we are encouraged, strengthens, supplied, built up, and planted firmly, and we are appointed to speak the word of God.
Especially in the meetings of the church, we should not be dismayed by anyone, we should not be afraid of anyone, but we should rather function to speak for the Lord.
This sharing is via this article at agodman.com. Picture source: photo album on, Jeremiah and Lamentations (Crystallization-study of Jeremiah and Lamentations -SemiAnnual Video Training)
