the tomato seed doesn't look over to watermelon seed and say, "what do you think i oughtta do? what should i become?" it contains an invisible instruction on what to multiply, what to do. everything god makes contains an invisible assignment. you don't decide your assignment; you discover it. >> ossie: yes. >> in jeremiah chapter 1, god gave you your assignment in your mother's womb. your assignment's always to a person or a group of people. how do you know two whom you are assigned? whose pain do you feel? whose tears affect you? whose enemies are you willing to confront? who do you long to protect? your assignment's geographical. where you are matters as much as what you are. you can be the right person, like jonah, in the wrong place... in whale university. [laughter] you can be a wrong person, like the samaritan woman, who had had five husbands, but be in the right place where she met jesus. geography really does matter. throughout the bible, every time god talks to people, he discusses the place they're to be. he told abraham, "leave your family; i've got a new place for y