The Potters Hands

“God gives Israel a choice in one hand His grace… they were going down the wrong path, but He was extending mercy in this warning… in the other hand bitter captivity…

God created us from dust and clay, it’s His right to do with us as He wills… God’s absolute authority over us should not be a point of fear, but of peace…

We can trust His hands, these are hands that only want the best for us… God doesn’t want to destroy us…

The thought here is not that God is random and arbitrary, but patient, that no matter the stubbornness’ of the clay He keeps working on them and in the end we would be as He originally desired us to be…

God doesn’t utterly disregard the old clay, but reworks it… He will return the clay back to a lump again, and then He reforms it into something newer and better…

Who are we to try to dictate to God what He would do with ourselves and lives… Who are we to try and tell God what He’s to do…

God determines His actions in our lives according to our responses to His actions… God pours out grace to us, we choose to receive it or reject it, and our choice in this determines our eternal home…

The best preaching may be rejected… Christ, who “spoke as no man ever spoke,” was “despised and rejected of men.”

God doesn’t want us to go through the motions, God wants us to be transformed… Our Potter wants us to be clay moldable within His hands, that we would know what it truly is to live…”

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