Friday Reading: Isaiah 45:9
[sorry this one is late...]
[sorry this one is late...]
Key Verse: Isaiah 45:9
9 Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands?
Devotion:
No matter how much we look into God’s love, how much we decide that we should emulate that love and pass it on to others, there is always going to come a time when we rebel for some reason. Why? Because we have sin in our lives and we are born into this life with sin. Because of that we will eventually get to the same point where Adam and Eve got to and we will sin against our God. We may even go as far as to argue against His will or even to question what He is doing in our lives! Unfortunately for us, that is one place we should never even be thinking of going to because we are not the creators of our own selves, we are not the creators of this world and we certainly are not God!
God doesn’t just want us to know that He is God. He wants us to remember it continually so that we will continue in subjection to Him. He wants us to continue to realise that He alone is God and that what He says, goes! The passage refers to things such as clay turning round to the potter and asking what the potter is making! To us that seems utterly absurd that clay should even speak, never mind ask the potter what he is making… but then we turn round to God and we ask Him why He is doing things in our lives that we feel that we should know before He does them!
God is the one in charge and He alone has the authority to do in our lives what He wills. Yes He has given us free will so that we can choose many things; But if He does not want us to have something then no matter what we do, we will not get it! This does not mean that we are robots who have to do every little thing that God says – because God wants us to be able to exercise our free will so that we will learn to do the right things. If we cannot be part of that decision making then we shall never learn how He wants us to be – but as long as He continues to allow us to be involved, we will feel more like it is our decision as well as God’s. What love He has for us!
Points to Ponder:
Do you like making your own rules?
Are your rules following God’s will?