By: Robert McCluskey
Submitted: 2010-10-14 07:22:59 | Word Count: 628
In the scriptural book of Jeremiah, God endeavors to motivate the prophet by way of stating: ”Before I actually formed you in your own mother's womb I knew you, before you were delivered I consecrated you; I've designated you a prophet to the nations.(Jeremiah 1:5) It is fair to say that a majority of Judeo-Christian followers believe that God may both predict and regulate the future, that individuals really exist in the thoughts of God, and that the mind of God is unchanging. Thus, human individuals are present as long as the Lord exists, and that is eternally.
For this reason you must be aware of all the implications of obstructing the lives of other individuals. When we obtain the stewardship of any human being, our job is not to ascertain the direction of that person's life but to nurture it such that the person may determine God's direction. The storyline of Jeremiah teaches that the dangers of disturbing God's consecrated purposes for another person go beyond only endangering the physical existence or salvation of that person person.
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People, even Christians, endure problems appreciating the endless nature of a specific human life because people live in a world, as well as in bodies, that hold our own mortal lives to be of utmost value. Bible believing Christians like to say that "life commences at the instant of conceiving," as a discussion against abortion. In the bigger sense this in reality undermines the value of human existence, because conception is merely the start of "mortal life." Your spiritual lives are timeless.
As well, we throw away valuable resources fighting in opposition to the appearance of growing older in agreement with individuals that profit from fear as well as shame manufactured by advertising propaganda and a modern society that blindly agrees with this. We sometimes try to unnaturally prevent our loved ones from entering into the presence of Our God. These actions are all indicators of our belief that physical life is preimmenent. The simple truth is that the individual human life is really as eternal as the lifetime of God, because it is a product of God's mind. The present mortal life is simply a tiny parenthesis in the eternal story of the universe. Nevertheless, it is in this parenthesis that all of a person's choices are made and all of our eternal destinies are established.
Christian sin is made up of avoidable choices made for entirely irrational reasons. The first wrong choice is to consider the lies which usually tell us these mortal bodies are the most important commodities and need to be protected and indulged at all costs. This lie started in the Garden of Eden and so it is now. When we place this lie into the framework of God's existence, it seems ridiculous. When we allow it to create demands merely in the context of now, it can become overpowering.
Jeremiah did not experience an easy lifetime in this world. The prophet was consecrated by the Almighty to deliver some genuinely negative stuff. He ended up being tortured, imprisoned and observed his beloved holy place destroyed. He was also commissioned by God to generate a manuscript generally known as Lamentations! Nevertheless, the role he accomplished was among the most crucial in Biblical history. If someone had killed him, or cautioned him as a child to prevent danger or criticism without exceptions, the Judeo-Christian record might be significantly altered.
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