The call. Jeremiah has a famous call narrative. It comes in a very specific historical period; God’s work is never in the abstract but always deeply situational/contextual. This call includes the instruction to “gird up your loins” (v. 17), and surely there are generalizable instructions here for all who heed God’s call to purposeful living: “Why am I here? What am I for?” We are not all prophets like Jeremiah, but we are all invited to participate with God in our specific time and place.

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