Emphasis Preaching Journal
before you were born, I...
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"... before you were born, I consecrated you."
Can God prepare us for a purpose before we are conscious of it? We may be able to accept this for a prophet, but what about ourselves? We may catch glimpses.
I remember a day --about my tenth year --when a fireman came to school. It was "Fire Prevention Week" and, after telling us the usual ways of preventing fires, he apparently decided he needed to spell out the implications of how costly a fire could be. He described in detail what it was like to remove a body from a building, destroyed by fire. He spared no details.
Can God prepare us for a purpose before we are conscious of it? We may be able to accept this for a prophet, but what about ourselves? We may catch glimpses.
I remember a day --about my tenth year --when a fireman came to school. It was "Fire Prevention Week" and, after telling us the usual ways of preventing fires, he apparently decided he needed to spell out the implications of how costly a fire could be. He described in detail what it was like to remove a body from a building, destroyed by fire. He spared no details.
