I Appointed You

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

July 14, 2025

I Appointed You

“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.

    Before you were born I set you apart

    and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 1:5

First, a bit of context. I have noted before N.T. Wright’s statement "What is true for Christ is true for you." This means that for those who are in Christ, the spiritual realities that are true of Jesus are also true for them. This includes righteousness, or right-standing before God, access to God, and the promise of eternal life, all received through faith in Christ. And the Apostle Paul noted in Romans 2 that God is not a respecter of persons, which means that God does not show favoritism or partiality towards individuals based on external factors like wealth, social status, race, or any other human-defined characteristic. When we take these two truths together, we can see that God’s word to Jeremiah, quoted above, is as true for us as it was for Jeremiah.

God knew me, and you, before He formed us in our mother’s womb. And before we were born, He set us apart and appointed us. As for me, I was appointed to be a United Methodist preacher for the congregations where He sent me. God appoints us all to a particular work or service where, empowered by the Holy Spirit, we get to build for the Kingdom of God.

The day I am writing this has been average for me. I enjoyed a few hours of tennis on a cool July morning. I made lunch for Cheryl and me and then I participated in a committee meeting for my HOA. The rest of the day will be relaxing. Even so, my Heavenly Father knew me before He formed me in my mother’s womb. Before I was born, He appointed me to be a pastor to his children.

My Takeaway: My worth, my value is not because of what I do, but because of whose I am. This truth inspires me to seek to stay firmly in God’s grace for today. How about you?

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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