Jeremiah 20:14 onwards: Cursed be the day when I was born...Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying 'A baby boy has been born to you!'...Because he did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant. Why did I ever come forth from the womb to look on trouble and sorrow, so that my days have been spent in shame?'
The language used by Jeremiah is extreme. I could feel his pain, his sorrow, his bitterness, his despondency. By cursing his own birth, he cursed himself.
Fortunately Jeremiah did not go on to commit suicide. God had asked Jeremiah to be His prophet and assured him. "But I will deliver you on the day," declares the Lord, "and you shall not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread. For I will certainly rescue you, and you will not fall by the sword; but you will have your own life as booty, because you have trusted in Me." declared the LORD. Jer 39:17,18.
When God calls us, life could be painful some times, or even most of the time. But God has promised that we will not be tested beyond what we could bear. In Jeremiah's case, he was indeed tested to the very limit he could bear.
God will always provide for us, so that we will not be stretched beyond the point we can endure. 1 Cor 10:13.
Blessed Assurance.
