Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5,

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

And before you were born, I consecrated you.

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Now this is obviously a specific word from God to Jeremiah.

That's what verse 4 says.

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

but listen to the relationship that God describes in his word with a person,

Jeremiah, before he was even formed in the womb.

Like in the United States, it's been a very significant couple of weeks for children in the womb.

And we know all over the Bible that God describes his work in creating life in the womb,

how he fearfully and wonderfully forms and makes us.

So Jeremiah 1.5 is certainly teaching that that God is forming a child,

is doing this wonderful, beautiful work in the womb,

but that God's work began even before that.

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

Before you were born, I consecrated you.

And we know this from other places in the Bible.

How God talks about from before creation, predestining people to be conformed to the image of his son.

Now we won't get into all the complexities and mysteries that surround predestination here,

but the picture of foreknowledge and predestination is all over the Bible.

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