Chosen
The seed catalogues have been dropping through the door since Christmas – most of them whilst we had over 20cm of snow on the ground! I like looking through the catalogues, but mainly in a fantasy kind of way. I dream of growing cucumbers – but I don’t have a greenhouse. I’d like to grow cabbages, but I can’t do the digging. So I have to stick to what I can manage to grow in pots. It’s about choosing what is appropriate to my situation.
God chose Jeremiah. There was a task to be done, and as far as God was concerned, Jeremiah was the man for it. Jeremiah was not so sure! He reminded God that he was not a good speaker and that he was too young. He was not the man for the job, he was, he believed, very much the wrong choice.
But God is not stuck by these problems in the way that we are. He promises Jeremiah that he will give him the words to say, and will protect him in his calling.
God chose Jeremiah to be a prophet, to speak to the nation on his behalf.
God calls each one of us to work for him. What has he chosen you for? What is your task?
It’s easy to think that there is nothing we can do. That we can’t speak publicly, or do great works. We can think that we are not the person for the task – we’re not suitable, or inappropriate in some way. But God calls us. God has chosen me and you. There is something he needs us to do for him – and he equips us for what that task is.
One task that we are all called to is to love. Love is one thing we can all do. Whatever our physical abilities, our own personal weaknesses and our strengths, we can all live in love. Indeed whatever we do, be it overtly for God or not, we must do it with love or it is worthless.
We must love – and love properly:
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
Love is the greatest thing we are called to. This world is calling out for love – and we can be the ones to bring it.
Picture from Capt Kodak
God has chosen you!
Pam's Perambulation 
… And you do what you can by writing blogs full of love!