Have you ever noticed that, here in southwest Oklahoma, there is pastureland so taken with mesquite trees that you can’t even walk through it. Let’s say that you owned that pasture and you wanted to grow crops on it. You would first have to pluck the mesquites out of the ground, ] completely break them down and remove them, even ripping the roots out so they would be destroyed and overthrown. It is a rather involved process that requires a great deal of work. And after all that work, you’d be ready to build the soil back in preparation of planting a crop for the eventual harvest.
That is the way it is when God begins to get ahold of our lives upon our having submitted to Him. Yes, God can and will use us even after we seem to have fallen short. But we must yield to Him. God is awesome that way!
We are human; we will do things wrong; yet He keeps pulling us back in order to remake us according to His will! We have to be willing. Yep, He remakes us over (and again, if necessary) until He has completed in us that which He purposed before we ever were.
In the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah, the prophet, had a lesson to learn; a lesson that involved the patience of God with His people who had consistently rebelled against Him.
In the first chapter of Jeremiah, we find that he was called and sanctioned by God. He was ordained by God to be a prophet. Jeremiah was just a young man. He didn’t have a degree from the university. He didn’t even have a certificate of training in any field. But God called him and equipped him. Jeremiah was just a young man, yet he was ordained to be a prophet to the nations. Age and lack of experience did not matter because when God called him, He also equipped him for the task.
If we look in Jeremiah 18, we see Jeremiah is invited over to the Potter’s house. Guys, this is so cool, it was there that Jeremiah saw the Master Potter take a lump of clay into His hands, and placing it upon a spinning potter’s wheel, He began to shape and mold it according to the design which He had already planned for it in His own heart and mind. Yet, there were times in which the clay did not mold and conform to that design. It became disfigured in the hands of the Potter because of its resistance to conformity and inconsistency as clay.
But the Potter did not become discouraged with the vessel and toss it away as something that was worthless and useless. Rather, He patiently remade it. He worked with it over and again....as many times as was necessary.... Until finally it became what he had first determined it would be. Thus, God will do the same with you and me! Seek Him and decide today to follow Him!
Genesis (2:7)
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (nasb)
Though at times we may look like a useless lump of clay ... the Potter has formed us and given us life! Can you see yourself as a lump of clay in the hands of God?
"Thou art the potter, I am the clay! Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!" Adelaide Pollard
Choose Jesus, choose life and let your light shine! And find a Bible believin’ church where you “fit in” and know, grow, and follow Christ! Tell others! See y’all at church and keep PRAYIN’ for HIS HARVEST! Pray for the rain! Amen!