Job said to God, "Your hands shaped me ... Remember that formed me as clay" (Job 10:8,9). What Job said, all we can say.As the creator of our bodies (Psalm 139:13-16) and "spiritual father" (Hebrews 12:9) he predestined those whom He foreknew "to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans 8:29). Paul expressed confidence in the Philippians, "... he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6).
CAN RESIST A GODGod limited his own power to accomplish his purpose in us, giving us free will. The psalmist of Israel said: "How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and solitude provoked! They made a tempting God, aggravated the Holy One of Israel" (Psalm 78:40-41). Because of the stubborn rebellion of the Israelites, God could not do for them what he had desired.
Isaiah rebuked Israel: "Let your wickedness! As if the potter was equal to the clay, and the work of him who said: He did me, and the thing made say of him potter, He knows nothing" (Isaiah 29:16). It is unimaginable that the vessels had this procedure to his creator. However, humans express these attitudes towards God.
A newspaper of the city where I live splashed an article about the author of a recent book. It apparently began as a believer in one true God, but adopted as a radical feminist philosophy she obviously decided that the true God who made it "knows nothing".Of course, she then came to deny that he had done, for his book describes "his quest to find a god - or goddess - with whom she feels comfortable." In other words, she thinks God is clay that she can mold into whatever she wants, "he or she" is. Often, people involved in homosexuality, marriage against the Scriptures and other sins, create their own imaginary god who tolerate their lifestyle choice.
WHAT ARE GOD"But now, O LORD, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all work of thy hands" (Isaiah 64:8). God "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Ephesians 3:20). He has the clearest vision of what we should be, and the wisdom and power to form us in this picture. But we have to allow that power to act in us.
The power of God works through His Word, through the friendship of the saints, and through prayer (2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 10:25, 4:16). To avail ourselves, we have to persevere "in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, the breaking of bread and in prayers" (Acts 2:42).
The power of God to shape us is also fulfilled by the persecution and trial. These can come from Satan, but God can use them "for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness" (Hebrews 12:10). Moreover, the fine pottery has to be turned and shaped, smoothed and marked and burned up in the oven at high temperatures to make it so valuable that the pot becomes.
GOD CAN REDO U.S.One of the biggest impediments to the fulfillment of God's purpose in our generation is the increasingly widespread idea that "we have the right to do what pleases us, and is not nobody's business." He who has this attitude to people will inevitably be the same to God. In fact, we do not have treated God in this way sometimes?
When I was young, I thought I had a clear picture of what God wanted me to do. Now that I'm older, I realize how much I'm far from it, and it's all my fault. God was not able to make me what I could have been resisted because of its power and allowed other influences scholars to shape me into something much less useful and valuable. But there is hope.
"I went down to the potter's house, and behold he was delivered to his work on the wheels. And the vessel that the potter made the clay was marred in the hand, has to do it again another vessel, and the second struck him. Then came to me the word of Jehovah, can not I do with you as this potter, O house of Israel? "(Jeremiah 18:3-6). God can do the same to us as individuals.
Saul of Tarsus was a broken vase while resisting the power of God's word and "gave kicking against the goad," but when he asked, trembling, "Lord, what wilt thou have me do?" God turned him into a vessel of honor. No matter how it may be spoiled our own lives, or how long this malformation has been, if we mean to Adelaid Pollard's poem:
Be it your own way, Lord, is thy own way!Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.Mold me and make me after thy will,While I'm waiting, submissive and serene.
CAN RESIST A GODGod limited his own power to accomplish his purpose in us, giving us free will. The psalmist of Israel said: "How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and solitude provoked! They made a tempting God, aggravated the Holy One of Israel" (Psalm 78:40-41). Because of the stubborn rebellion of the Israelites, God could not do for them what he had desired.
Isaiah rebuked Israel: "Let your wickedness! As if the potter was equal to the clay, and the work of him who said: He did me, and the thing made say of him potter, He knows nothing" (Isaiah 29:16). It is unimaginable that the vessels had this procedure to his creator. However, humans express these attitudes towards God.
A newspaper of the city where I live splashed an article about the author of a recent book. It apparently began as a believer in one true God, but adopted as a radical feminist philosophy she obviously decided that the true God who made it "knows nothing".Of course, she then came to deny that he had done, for his book describes "his quest to find a god - or goddess - with whom she feels comfortable." In other words, she thinks God is clay that she can mold into whatever she wants, "he or she" is. Often, people involved in homosexuality, marriage against the Scriptures and other sins, create their own imaginary god who tolerate their lifestyle choice.
WHAT ARE GOD"But now, O LORD, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all work of thy hands" (Isaiah 64:8). God "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Ephesians 3:20). He has the clearest vision of what we should be, and the wisdom and power to form us in this picture. But we have to allow that power to act in us.
The power of God works through His Word, through the friendship of the saints, and through prayer (2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 10:25, 4:16). To avail ourselves, we have to persevere "in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, the breaking of bread and in prayers" (Acts 2:42).
The power of God to shape us is also fulfilled by the persecution and trial. These can come from Satan, but God can use them "for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness" (Hebrews 12:10). Moreover, the fine pottery has to be turned and shaped, smoothed and marked and burned up in the oven at high temperatures to make it so valuable that the pot becomes.
GOD CAN REDO U.S.One of the biggest impediments to the fulfillment of God's purpose in our generation is the increasingly widespread idea that "we have the right to do what pleases us, and is not nobody's business." He who has this attitude to people will inevitably be the same to God. In fact, we do not have treated God in this way sometimes?
When I was young, I thought I had a clear picture of what God wanted me to do. Now that I'm older, I realize how much I'm far from it, and it's all my fault. God was not able to make me what I could have been resisted because of its power and allowed other influences scholars to shape me into something much less useful and valuable. But there is hope.
"I went down to the potter's house, and behold he was delivered to his work on the wheels. And the vessel that the potter made the clay was marred in the hand, has to do it again another vessel, and the second struck him. Then came to me the word of Jehovah, can not I do with you as this potter, O house of Israel? "(Jeremiah 18:3-6). God can do the same to us as individuals.
Saul of Tarsus was a broken vase while resisting the power of God's word and "gave kicking against the goad," but when he asked, trembling, "Lord, what wilt thou have me do?" God turned him into a vessel of honor. No matter how it may be spoiled our own lives, or how long this malformation has been, if we mean to Adelaid Pollard's poem:
Be it your own way, Lord, is thy own way!Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.Mold me and make me after thy will,While I'm waiting, submissive and serene.
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