Hello and welcome to the scriptures of a real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become real

or help them become more real to us because we believe the more real they are, the more we can draw power

out of them and apply them to our lives, and we need that power. I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein,

and in this short cast, I'm just going to address a few elements from a few of the chapters of

the first part of the book of Jeremiah, some of those verses that have spoken most to me

and that have images or ideas that I've really

learned from or that have touched me. Of course, in my other longer podcast with Auburn, Shannon,

which I think was great, I just really enjoyed visiting with him. I always do. We touched on

quite a few things regarding Isaiah's call,

but there's one thing we didn't touch on that I would like to talk about.

So we've spoken there in Isaiah chapter one about Isaiah, or sorry, Jeremiah.

We spoke in there about Jeremiah's call and Jeremiah being nervous about this and feeling he was a child.

But we didn't touch on a couple of my favorite verses that I think are really profound.

And this is verse 9 and 10, especially 10.

So the Lord, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my, meaning Jeremiah,

touched my mouth, and the Lord said unto me, behold, I put my words in my mouth.

So he is giving Jeremiah the things that Jeremiah should say. And he's going to explain to it what it is,

explain to him what it is in verse 10. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms,

to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down to build

and to plant. So he's mixing some agricultural and some construction metaphors here. But note that the

first set is all about tearing things down. So rooting out, this is when you try and get rid of

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