November 3, 2022

‘Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.” (Jeremiah 1:6-7)

You may not be young, like the prophet Jeremiah in this passage, but you are young at something. You are always crossing some kind of threshold beyond which you have no experience.

When inexperience necessarily demands dependence on God, then being a rookie is a very good thing. The God who beckons you across that threshold is the same God who will provide for you.

“Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works;through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Proper 23 – BCP)