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37. How Do I Know My Calling? What Jeremiah 1 Says That Most People Never Hear
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How do I know my calling? Have you ever asked that question?
You are still waiting for the moment. The clear sign. The unmistakable confirmation. The voice that finally says this is it. And it hasn't come the way you expected — not with the clarity and certainty you've been told should accompany a real calling from God. So you keep waiting. And the waiting has slowly made you feel like you are the problem.
This episode opens The Calling Arc by going deep into Jeremiah 1 — the most complete and pastorally honest description of how calling actually works in all of Scripture. The burning bush is not the standard. Calling is not an event you are waiting for. It is an identity you already have. And this episode is for everyone who has been standing in an empty field, wondering if they heard something or imagined it.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The specific grief that accumulates in a long calling-wait, and why naming it honestly is an act of faith
- What Jeremiah 1:4-10 actually says about how calling works and what most teaching misses
- The burning bush expectation — why it paralyzes people and why it is the exception, not the norm in Scripture
- How Samuel learned to recognize a voice he was already hearing — and what that means for you
- The fear underneath Jeremiah's resistance — and why God's answer was a promise of presence, not a pep talk
- The difference between calling as an event and calling as an identity
- What Esau McCaulley says about calling being rooted in being, not production
- A direct word for the person who stepped out in obedience, and it went wrong
- What one concrete step looks like before the burning bush arrives
Key Scripture references: Jeremiah 1:4-10, 1 Samuel 3:1-10, Exodus 3-4, Isaiah 6:1-8
Perfect for: Christians waiting for clarity on their calling, believers who have never had a dramatic calling moment and wonder if they've missed it, people who stepped out in faith and it didn't work the way they expected, anyone carrying the calling question alone for years, men and women in long seasons of waiting.
Part of our series: The Calling Arc — Part 1 of The Formation Trilogy (Episodes 34-42) Follow-up to: The Purpose Arc (Episodes 34-36) Next episode — Episode 38: "The Waiting Room: What God Does Between the Call and the Commission"
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Alright, let's get right into it. Because you're still waiting for the moment. You're waiting for the clear sign, the unmistakable confirmation. You're waiting for the voice that finally says, this is it. This is the thing. This is what you were put here to do. You're waiting for the moment you can point to and say, That is when I knew. Am I right? Am I right? I know I'm right. I know I'm right. But here's the thing: it hasn't come. At least not the way that you expected it to. Not in the way that other people seem to describe it, not with the clarity and the certainty and the sense of a settled knowing, right, that you've been told should accompany a real calling from God. And so you wait. And you pray and you fast and you you try to be faithful in what's in front of you while at the same time you are quietly and persistently carrying this question. Am I missing it? Did I miss it already? Was there a moment I was supposed to recognize and didn't? It's the silence and answer. And I know I'm right, because I carry those same questions. And see, some of you have been in that waiting place for years. Some of you, I would dare to say decades, right? Not even months, years. And the waiting has done something to you that you haven't even fully named yet. It's made you feel like you are the problem. Like everyone else has this burning bush, and you are standing in an empty field wondering if you heard something or if you just imagined it. If that's you, then this is your episode. Welcome to Faith Formed. I'm Justin, your host, your brother, walking through life with you. And this is a podcast about honest faith for people who don't have it all together. And if you're enjoying the content that we're putting out, do me a favor, stop right now. Uh go ahead and give us a five-star rating and a review wherever you're catching this podcast. Uh, this is episode 37, and this is the first episode of the calling arc, but it's part two of the formation trilogy. And so we've spent three episodes, 34, 35, and 36 in the purpose arc, establishing what I like to think are the foundations. Uh, that you are made in the image of God, that your calling precedes your assignment, and that purpose is a posture that you live from rather than a destination that you move toward. And now, in this second trilogy in this in this formation series, we're going deeper. Because knowing those things in your head is different from knowing them in your bones. And the calling arc, this next three episodes is all about the bones. It's three episodes and it's one question at three different depths. So episode 37, this episode is how does calling actually work and why is most of what we've been taught about it wrong? The next episode is what does God do in the waiting season between the calling and the commission? And then episode 39 is gonna be what do you do when you can't see the assignment clearly? All extremely relevant, uh, all extremely valid for your life today, or for someone that you know uh for their life today. And today we're gonna start with Jeremiah. Because Jeremiah 1, I think, is one of the most honest, uh, most complete, most pastorally useful descriptions of how calling works in all of scripture. And most people have heard it referenced without ever sitting with it long enough to let it do its work. And so today in this episode, we are going to sit in it. Uh, and my prayer is that we all will walk away from this episode really in the in a stage of transformation uh that allows us to see calling clearly for what it is, but also for what it is not. Okay? So before we get to the text, I I need to stay in the room with the people who were waiting. Like if you're in the waiting season, you're you're my people. You're my people. I saw a post on TikTok today where this guy said, uh, if you are waiting, then do what waiters are do what waiters do and serve. I thought that was uh I thought that was pretty clever. But I want to stay right here with the people who are waiting. Because I said that this episode is for you, and I really meant it. And I don't want to rush past that to get to the content of this episode. Because speaking from personal experience, there is a specific kind of grief that accumulates in a long calling wait. And it's not a dramatic grief, right? You're not just running around with, you know, screaming, why, why, why, you know, and all that stuff, no. And it doesn't announce itself, it just kind of sits underneath the ordinary days and slowly changes the quality of your internal life. Uh, you start to question your perception. Was what you sensed from God real, or did you want it to be real and so you felt it? Uh, you start to question your obedience. Maybe you missed a step somewhere. Maybe there was a door you were supposed to walk through and didn't, and now the sequence is broken. You start to question your worth. Maybe the calling you sensed belongs to someone else, someone more qualified, someone whose character has been more fully developed, someone who hasn't made the mistakes that you made. Maybe God favors this other person, whoever it is, more than he favors you. And underneath all of that, questioning is a loneliness that doesn't have an easy language. Because most people around you don't understand what you're waiting for. Understand that. They see your life, they see the good things in it, right? They see, you know, the family, the work, the faith, the faithfulness. But they can't see the gap between what you sense you were made for and what your life currently looks like. And so you carry that gap alone because when you try to talk to people about it, they're like, oh, just be, you know, just be thankful to God for where you are and for what you have, and just don't worry about the, don't worry about the rest or this and that and this and that. And so because they can't see the the truth of what you're carrying, you end up carrying it alone. And that is what makes it a burden that is heavier than it needs to be. Um, Walter Bruegeman, I mention him a lot on the podcast. I I love his work. But in his work on the prophetic imagination, he argues that one of the most important things a community of faith can do for its people is to create space for honest lament, which is the naming of what is not yet, what has been promised but has not arrived, what is longed for but not yet given. He argues that lament is not a failure of faith. And we've talked about this before on the pod. Um it's a it's a practice of holding tension between what God has spoken and what the present reality looks like. And I think, you know, in our in our quest to be helpful, we try to often push people past the lament to whatever's on the other side of it. But I definitely think there is a point where if we do that, we are hurting people rather than helping them. And so if you're in a long calling wait, that tension is real. And naming it honestly is not faithlessness, it's really the beginning of the kind of prayer that Jeremiah himself is actually known for. And so I want to acknowledge that for you the weight has been real, that the grief has been real, that the loneliness has been real. But even in that truth, here's another truth for you God has not been absent in any of it. So to prove that, I want to now sit in the text. Because I think if we read it slowly enough, it speaks to every part of the calling conversation that I think a lot of teaching really skips over. And so we're looking at Jeremiah chapter 1, verses 4 through 10. And here's what it says. The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Alas, sovereign Lord, I said, I do not know how to speak, I am too young. But the Lord said to me, Do not say I am too young. You must go to every one I send you to, and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you, declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant. Now, if you need to pause this and go back and read that again, I need you to do that. And I need you to notice what's happening, okay? It is God who initiates this. Jeremiah doesn't go looking for the calling. He doesn't complete a spiritual gift inventory, he doesn't attend a purpose discovery retreat, he doesn't go and try to find a prophet, any of those things, okay? The word of the Lord comes to him. The calling is not found, it arrives. Understand that, right? See, God speaks about the past before he speaks about the future. And so the first thing out of God's mouth is not, here is what I want you to do. It is, here I, here is what I already know about you before I formed you, right? Before you were born. So the calling is rooted in a knowledge that precedes Jeremiah's existence. So God is not responding to who Jeremiah has become. It is an intimate, relational, particular knowledge. It's not the knowledge of an employer reviewing a resume. It's the knowledge of a God who fashioned a person with a specific intention before that person had any say in the matter before you were born, I knew you. Do you understand that? Do you get that? But then what happens? Jeremiah objects. And God doesn't dismiss the objection, he addresses it directly. And this is where I want to spend some time because Jeremiah's objection is often our objection. I know in my life at certain points it's been my objection. And the way God handles it is the most pastorally important part of the whole text, I think. Now, before I get to Jeremiah's objection, I need to name something that I think is keeping a lot of people stuck, maybe even you. See, most people have been shaped, either explicitly or implicitly, by what I'm going to call the burning bush model of calling. Okay, the burning bush model of calling. And here's what the burning bush model says: it says that calling arrives as a dramatic, unmistakable external event. Moses sees a bush that burns without being consumed. He hears an audible voice. He receives specific instructions, and he knows exactly what he's supposed to do and exactly who sent him. Everything is clear, everything is confirmed. The calling is an absolutely miraculous event. And so, because that story is in the Bible, and because it is so compelling, and because it's the kind of story that gets told in testimonies and sermons and books about calling, I believe, and I could be wrong, that many people have adapted it as, adopted it as the standard. They believe that a real calling from God looks like a burning bush. And if they haven't had a burning bush moment, they conclude one of two things. One, either the calling hasn't come yet and they need to keep waiting, or two, they had a moment that might have been the calling, but it wasn't dramatic enough to count. And I believe that both of those, both of those conclusions are costing people years of their lives. Because here's what I want you to notice: Moses was not the only person in scripture who received a calling. Isaiah received one. Samuel received one. Jeremiah received one. Paul received one. And they all look different. Isaiah's calling came through a vision of the throne room of God. Overwhelming, terrifying, world undoing. Samuel's calling came in a voice in the night that he didn't recognize as God the first or second or even the third time that he heard it. He had to be taught by his mentor, Eli, how to respond to what he was already hearing. Jeremiah's calling came as a word, not a vision, not an audible voice from a burning object, a word, a deep interior knowing that arrived before he was born and was simply being made explicit to him in the moment of his commissioning. Us Guinness in the call have referenced him several times over the last few weeks. He argues that the Burning Bush model is not the norm in scripture, it's the exception. And most people in the biblical narrative receive their calling through a gradual, growing, deepening awareness, through the accumulation of experience and circumstance and interior conviction rather than through a dramatic singular moment. And the problem is that we have elevated the exception to become the standard. And then we have handed that standard to an entire generation of believers and told them: if you haven't had your burning bush, then you haven't been called yet. Keep tarrying, keep waiting. But that's not what the Bible teaches. The calling may have already arrived. It may be the thing you keep coming back to, the burden you can't put down, the specific ache that won't quiet itself no matter what assignment you're in. Have you experienced it? It may be the thing that your primary calling has been expressing through every assignment you have ever carried. It may be so close to you, so native to you that you haven't recognized it as a calling because you assume that a calling would feel more foreign, more surprising, more dramatic than something this familiar. He said that God came down, sat down on his bed, and they had a conversation about the red of what the rest of his life was going to look like. And I've as a kid, I would find myself like, God, how come you won't come sit down on my bed and tell me what you want me to do? Right? We assume that God is a primarily dramatic God, but that's not the case. Samuel had to be told by Eli how to recognize what he was already hearing. Hearing. And I think that there are some of you who might be in that same situation. Now, let's go back to Jeremiah's objection because this is the part of the text that most teaching rushes through, and I think it deserves to, it needs some space to breathe. So Jeremiah says, Alas, sovereign Lord, I said, I do not know how to speak. I am too young. Most preachers will treat that as an excuse. A minor obstacle that God corrects and moves past. Jeremiah says he can't speak. God says, yes, you can. End of discussion. But we need to pay attention to what Jeremiah is actually saying. Because I don't think that he is primarily making an argument about his qualifications. I think he's expressing fear. I do not know how to speak. I am too young. Read between the lines. I'm not ready for this. God, the scale of what you're describing is bigger than I am. You're talking about nations and kingdoms. You're talking about uprooting and tearing down. You're describing a task that will make enemies of powerful people. And I'm just a young man from a priestly family in Anathoth who has never stood before a king or a court or a crowd. God, I'm not the person for this. Where some people may see an excuse, I see a cry. And I see a cry because the way that God responds is not in correction, it's a promise. He says, do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you. See, God does not say you're more capable than you think you are. He does not say you have hidden talents that will emerge when you need them. He doesn't even make an argument for anything within Jeremiah that would qualify him for what God is calling him to do. But rather, he makes to Jeremiah something that is even more powerful. He makes a promise to Jeremiah about his presence. He says, I am with you. See, that's the answer to fear. Not a reassessment of your competence, not a pep talk about your potential, the presence of God in the middle of the task you are afraid of. That's the answer. Barbara Brown Taylor in Learning to Walk in the Dark writes about the kind of faith that is required to move forward when you cannot see clearly. She argues that most of us have been taught a theology of full illumination, that God will make the path completely clear before we take the step. And when the path isn't clear, we conclude that it isn't time to move yet. But Taylor argues that the biblical pattern is almost always the opposite. You take the step in the dark, and the light comes on as you move. The path does not become clear before the obedience. It's the obedience that produces the clarity. Let me stop. Let me stop. That that that just did something to me. I don't know if it did something to you, but that just did something to me. Let me say that again. The path does not become clear before the obedience. The obedience produces the clarity. Oh my gosh. Okay. The obedience produces the clarity, Justin. Amen. So Jeremiah's fear was not disqualification. It was the exact condition in which God gave his most important promise. I am with you. And that promise was enough for Jeremiah to move. So I want to make a distinction now that I think will do significant work for the people out there who are listening who are still waiting for the burning bush. Because calling is not an event. And I know everything in our world is an event, but calling is not an event. It's an identity. An event happens once and then it's in the past, right? You have the baby gender reveal, right? But you don't have it again when the baby's born and the gender is confirmed. You don't have it, you know what I'm saying? You know, you don't have a new gender, uh, uh gender confirmation every birthday, no. That gender reveal is a one-time thing. It's an event. You can point to it and you can return to it in your memory. You can say, on this day in this place at this time, this happened, right? And so if calling is an event, you could say, on this day in this place, God spoke and I knew it. But but what happens when the event fades? What happens when the clarity of the moment gives way to the fog of the ordinary? What happens when you are like three years into the thing that you believed God called you to and the initial certainty has worn off, and so now you're just grinding your way through a Tuesday. Because if calling is an event, then the Tuesday is a crisis. Because the event is receding and the certainty is thinning, and you need another event to refuel what the first one started. But see, if calling is an identity, if it is the deep grain of who you are that was established before you were born, woven into the very fabric of your personhood, then the Tuesday is not a crisis. It's just a Tuesday. And on Tuesday, you are still who you are. The calling is still operative. The presence of God that was promised is still present. Nothing that happened or didn't happen, get that, on the particular Tuesday changes what was established before you took your first breath. Esau Macaulay writes about calling in a way that I think gets at this better than almost anything that I could say. Okay? He argues that calling is not primarily about what God wants you to produce, it's about who God has made you to be. And the production, the assignment, the specific work, all of that is downstream of the being. That comes later. When you root your calling in what you produce, you will always be vulnerable to a crisis that affects your production. But when you root it in who you are, in the deep grain of personhood, the stalling of the production does not touch. It cannot touch the foundation. That's why Jeremiah could preach for 40 years to people who largely rejected his message. That's how he could watch Jerusalem fall, watch everything he warned about come to pass, and still not lose his calling. The calling was not in the response of the audience. It was in the word that God had put in his mouth. It was in the yada, the intimate knowing that preceded his birth. Hear me, family. Your calling is not in your results, it is in your being. And your being was established before you had any results to show. And it will still be there even if you don't produce the results that you hoped that you would. Now I need to stop here, and I need to speak directly to a particular person, and I know you're listening, because everything I've said so far has been addressed to the person who is pre-obedience, who is still waiting, still hesitating, and still trying to find the certainty before they move. But there's another person who is integral to this conversation, and you're in this room with me. I know you are. And now they're not waiting for clarity about whether to move. They're sitting in the wreckage of having moved. And the question that you are carrying is not when will I know my calling? It is, was I wrong about the calling entirely? That is a harder question. And it deserves a direct answer. And I'm speaking to myself here too. Because I'm I'm I'm that person. You were not necessarily wrong about the calling. You may have been wrong about the assignment. You may have been wrong about the timing. You may have been wrong about what the outcome was supposed to look like. But here's what I want you to hold on to for dear life. Okay? The failure of an assignment is not evidence that the calling was false. By typical metrics, Jeremiah's assignment failed. He preached and the people didn't repent. He warned and the kings didn't listen. He wept over Jerusalem, and Jerusalem fell anyway. The very thing that he gave his life to, it didn't produce the outcome that he was hoping for. And yet the calling was real. The word was from God. The the yada, the knowing was not undone by the outcome. And if you stepped out in genuine obedience to what you believed God placed in you and the assignment did not work the way you expected, that's grief. Real grief. I understand it. I still feel mine. And it deserves to be held that way. Not explained away, not spiritualized into a lesson too quickly, but held, recognized, acknowledged. But also, it is not evidence that God was absent. And it's also not evidence that the calling was a mistake. Because the calling is still in you. And the next assignment may look different from the last one. The expression of the calling may change. The context may shift, the scale may be smaller or larger or simply other. But what God placed in you before you were born, this deep knowing, this yada, this setting apart, that was not undone by what the last assignment produced. The calling is still intact. It hasn't shifted. It's still there. And I don't want to close this episode with the with a posture, but no practice. Because I think that is what most conversations about calling do. We make it theoretical, but not practical. They'll give you a framework and send you back into the ordinary without anything concrete to do with it. So I want to be direct, okay? If you have been waiting for the burning bush before you take the step, the step is the practice of the thing you already know that you're called to. Not the full expression of it, no. It's not the platform or the stage or the finished product, no, it's the practice. The step is the practice of the thing you already know that you were called to. If you sense a calling toward teaching, find one person and you teach them something this week. It doesn't have to be a curriculum or a program. One person, one conversation, one thing you know that they need to know. Maybe it's something that you read in your word that morning, right? If you sense a calling toward being a healer that God has called you to heal, toward moving people's pain, moving into people's pain, uh, and staying present in it, I challenge you to find one person who is hurting and show up. Don't fix anything. You just show up and stay with them in their pain. If you sense a calling toward building, toward creating order out of chaos, toward systems and structures that carry people toward something, then find one broken thing in your immediate environment and just begin the work of ordering it. Not at scale, just at a size of what is actually in front of you. The burning bush didn't did not come before Moses obeyed. The clarity came as he moved. Samuel did not recognize the voice of God the first time. He learned to recognize it by responding to it. Jeremiah did not feel ready. God touched his mouth and said, Go, and Jeremiah went. It's one step. That's all I'm one step. Not the full calling, not the complete assignment, not the finished work. One step in the direction of what you already know is in you. That step will teach you more about your calling, and another year of waiting for certainty and clarity will. So I'm challenging you to take it. And see, I've been talking about calling for a long time. I've wrote a book about it, called but uh an e-book, sorry, called but not ready. I've written about it, I've taught about it, I've built content around it, and I want to be absolutely honest about something. There have been long, long, long stretches where none of it felt like calling. It felt like output. It felt like Justin just reaching for some measure, some thread of relevance and significance and value. It felt like a content calendar and a published date and a lack of sales and a lack of attention, and a small number that told me whether what I was doing was working. And then those stretches, the calling question, it would come back, and sometimes it still does, but it's it's not as motivation. It comes back in an accusatory manner, almost as a ghost that haunts me. Like, am I doing the thing or am I just doing a thing? Is this what I was made for, or is this what I've built because it is adjacent to what I was made for? What I'm learning slowly, because I'm hard-headed, is that the question itself is the calling's way of keeping me honest. The fact that I cannot settle into the output without the question arising is not evidence that the calling is absent. You see what I'm saying? It's the evidence that it's alive. Like the fact that I can even ask those questions proves that the calling is still active, that it that it refuses to be reduced to mere metrics, that it keeps asking for more than performance. And I didn't have a burning bush moment. I have had a long, slow accumulating awareness of what I was made to do. That is to pastor, and that is to teach. And maybe that pastoring will never come into a church. Maybe that pastoring and teaching is by this podcast. Maybe it's by books that I write that may get, you know, 20, 30, 30 purchases, or, you know, three or four downloads. Um, but that awareness of who I am and what God has called me to do, it has helped me to survive assignments that didn't work, and seasons that felt empty, and Tuesday mornings where none of it felt like enough. Now, have I raged? Absolutely. Have I felt frustrated? Oh, oh my gosh, I wish you knew me. Have I screamed at God and shook my fist? I I have. Okay. Calling is not an event you're waiting for, it's an identity that you already have, established before you were born, woven into the fabric of your being, known by God before you had a single day or exp a day of experience or a single result to point to. The burning bush is the exception, not the standard. Samuel had to learn to recognize what he was already hearing. Jeremiah had to step out before the clarity arrived. And what God promised both of them was not a clear path, but it was a present God. For the one who is still waiting, the step is the practice. One small, concrete, immediate expression of the calling you already sense. And I dare you to take it this week. For the one who stepped out and it went wrong, the failure of the assignment is not the failure of the calling. The word is still in your mouth. The yada still precedes you, and your calling is still intact. And so, next episode, we go into the waiting room, the season between the call and the commission. And we ask the question that nobody wants to ask. But before we get there, I want you to sit with this. What have you been calling uncertainty that is actually fear? And what would one step look like if you took it before the certainty arrived? Father, I want to come to you on behalf of every person who just listened to this episode. God, I thank you for their lives. God, I thank you for their attention in this episode. And I thank you for your calling on their life. Father, for the one who's been waiting for the burning bush and starting to wonder if it will ever come, God, I ask you to reframe the waiting. Let them feel today that the calling may already be present, that it probably is already present, that what they keep coming back to, what they cannot put down, what refuses to be quiet no matter what assignment they're in, that that may be exactly what you placed in them before they were born. Let them hear it with new ears. For the one who is carrying the grief of the long wait, the loneliness of holding a gap that no one else can see, Abba, I ask you to meet them in that specific loneliness, the way you met Jeremiah before you commissioned him, the way you knew him before you called him. Let them feel that the weight has not been empty, that you have been present in every silent day of it. For the one paralyzed by the fear underneath the resistance, who knows what the calling is and is afraid of the scale of it, afraid of getting it wrong, afraid of what it will cost, God, give them the answer you gave Jeremiah. Not a pep talk, God, but a promise, a promise of your presence, that you're with them, and then let that be enough to move them. And for the one who stepped out and it went wrong, who's man, the one who's sitting in the field of the wreckage, of an assignment that failed, and they're wondering if the calling was ever real. God, I pray that you would separate the assignment from the calling. God, I pray that you would bind up their wounds and that you would heal their broken hearts. I pray that you would assure them that the word is still in their hearts and that you're not done with them. And for those who are going to take their first steps this week, God empower them. Meet them in those steps. Confirm it and let clarity come step by step as they move. In Jesus' name. We thank you for your goodness. Amen. Now, before you go, if this episode has put language to something you have been carrying, share it, please. Send it to someone who is standing in the same empty field you've been standing in. They need to know the burning bush is not the only model. Now, do me a favor, take 60 seconds, please, and leave us a five-star rating and review wherever you listen. Every review is how this conversation finds the person who needs this conversation. And also subscribe so that you don't miss episode 38. Like we are, we are on one. With the purpose arc, then this arc, we are, we are, we're giving you good teaching. Um, and you don't want to miss episode 38 because what God does in the waiting room is the conversation that most calling teaching never has with the people. And I don't want you to miss it. Follow Faith Formed on our socials. We want the conversation to continue between episodes. Reach out to us. Let us know what you want to learn about, what you what you what your questions are. Just reach out to us. We want to hear from you. I'm Justin. This has been Faith Formed. Keep pursuing, and y'all be blessed.
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