Then I said, “Alas, Lord God!"
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
Because I am a youth.”
But the Lord said to me,
”Do not say, ‘I am a youth.’
Because everywhere I send you, you
shall go,
And all that I command you, you shall
speak.
”Do not be afraid of them,
For I am with you to deliver you,”
declares the Lord.”
I know we’ve all heard the discussions from Timothy about not allowing people to look down on us for being young; about the Lord’s calling superceding our natural qualifications. But it struck me as I was reading this the massive logical problem with fearing our calling (whatever that may be) because of our natural conditioning.
Between men, thirty years might be a long time. In the twenty years between a kid of 19 becoming a man of 39, I imagine a great deal of confidence can be earned simply by living life and gaining experience in things. But to God, who has been for all of eternity, the 20 years isn’t anything at all.
So, if God has called a person to something, on a purely logical level, we must believe we’re the right people for the job. And, if that weren’t enough, we have countless promises of protection and “deliverance”.
