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SUMMARY:Morning worship
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DESCRIPTION:Morning worship: reader Rosie Medhurst. This service is the fi
 fth in our Young People in the Bible series: 'You're not too young'.\n\nFi
 rst reading: Jeremiah 1\, 4-8\nSecond reading: 1 Timothy 1\, 1.1–2\; 4.1
 2–16 \n\nOur focus today is on two figures who were called to demanding 
 leadership roles while still very young. While the prophet Jeremiah is nor
 mally thought of as an older man\, his initial response to God is “Ah\, 
 Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak\, for I am only a boy.” In Ti
 mothy's case\, the older apostle Paul anticipates his possible doubts: "Le
 t no-one despise your youth". Both Jeremiah and Timothy receive instructio
 ns which are both reassuring and challenging. Others must not dismiss them
  on account of their lack of experience\; they themselves\, however\, are 
 not allowed to make their youth an excuse for inaction!\n\nImages of Jerem
 iah generally show him as a tough\, experienced older man\, courageously s
 peaking truth to power and telling people who did not want to listen about
  uncomfortable realities. For this very reason\, it is good to be reminded
  that his first response\, on realising what he was being called to do\, w
 as one of near panic. Timothy\, in contrast\, is typically depicted as bea
 rdless\, as a way of emphasising his youth. The image on this page is a de
 tail from a 12th century stained glass window\, in which the staff in the 
 saint's right hand simultaneously represents the cudgel with which he was 
 martyred\, an emblem of his own authority and\, through the feathery textu
 re of its surface\, the martyr's palm of victory.
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