”“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeramiah 1:5Written approximately in 626 BC, the Lord called upon Jeremiah to prophecy about five years before Josiah king of Judah turned the nation toward repentance from idolatry.
How difficult is it for you to believe God already knew you before you were formed in your mother’s womb? Truly, this is where your unconditional faith is tested. Can you explain or comprehend this biblical fact with human logic? Kudos for trying, but the answer is a resounding no! This is why faith gives you and I the ability to believe with trust without conditions. Faith is beautiful.
Theologians continue to attack this Truth with human logic, by proclaiming and wrongly interpreting we’re already “predestined” to be with Christ in Heaven, becuase He chose – selected – us already to be with Him in Heaven, implying we’re already saved and the blood redemption of Christ Jesus from the Cross is unnecessary or serves a different purpose. This is absolutely false and needs to be rejected. Clearly the Truth is God has predestined – chose, determined, and formed – every soul to be Christlike in His image to serve and glorify Him.
Jeremiah 1:5 and other verses throughout the Bible makes it clear God chose you before your existence on this planet, BUT! have you chosen God? I’ll address this in more detail in later chapters, but allow me to briefly explain: without free-will given to us by God in Genesis, love in each of us would not exist, and human beings alive would all be like robots already programmed to say the words and do the things set by God. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden from then onward we as a human race have been separated from God from the time we enter into this world from the womb, and until the day comes for each of us to become self-aware and believe in God’s love, the gift of Salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the presence of the God’s Divine Holy Spirit, we as human beings have the freedom of choice to accept or reject.
Remember, God conceived you first, then came the sin of disobedience in the Garden of Eden, and then the separation from God in the flesh losing the Christlike image, and now we need a Savior to remove this separation from God, and reclaim each of us as a Child of God. Yes! you have been predestined to be with Christ in Heaven, but you must believe and accept the Gift of Salvation through Christ without condition and partiality. It’s called Salvation, because we enter into this world condemned to hell. God conceived you first. Will you reject this biblical fact and put your faith in something else? I hope not.
