Quoting Eugene Peterson
I’ve been reading through Run With The Horses by Eugene Peterson about the life of the prophet Jeremiah from the Old Testament.
I was reading late the other night while laying in bed and I was fading fast. Then I read this quote and was wide awake…
“Jeremiah, before he was born, was enlisted on God’s side in this war. He wasn’t given a few years in which to look around and make up his mind which side he would be on, or even whether he would join a side at all. He was already chosen as a combatant on God’s side. And so are we all. No one enters existence as a spectator. We either take up the life to which we have been consecrated or we traitorously defect from it. We cannot say, “Hold it! I am not quite ready. Wait until I have sorted things out.”
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