God's Grand Ideas

"I have put my words in your mouth. ... I have set you this day over nations."
Jeremiah 1: 9-10, RSV


"There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do. Our ideas of what we can do or want to do are trivial; God ideas for us are grand.

It is not our feelings that determine our level of participation in life, nor our experience that qualifies us for what we will do and be. It is what God decides about us. God does not send us into the dangerous and exacting life of faith because we are qualified; he chooses us in order to qualify us for what he wants us to be and to do."

Run with the Horses


God's Grand Ideas, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.