December 4, 2019
MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
THE DIVINE POTTER MOLDS HUMAN CLAY INTO HIS IMAGE.
Ask yourself: Is it my way or God’s way that I am following. Here’s a vital part of the sealing work: Submiting our will to God, resisting the devil and his temptations, particularly the pesky, persistent besetting sins “that so easily ensnare us” (James 4:7; Rev.3:21; 1 Cor. 15:31; Luke 9:23; Heb 12:21). – “While the human agent is devising and planning for himself something that God has withheld him from doing, he has a hard time. He complains and frets, and has still more difficulties. But when he submits as clay in the hands of the potter, then God works the man into a vessel of honor (Rom. 9:21; 1 Thess. 4:4; 2 Tim. 2:21).
The clay submits to be worked. If God has His way, hundreds would be worked and be made into vessels as He sees best. Let the hand of God work the clay. He knows just what kind of vessel He wants. To every man He has given his work. God knows what place he is fitted for.
Yet many are working contrary to His will, and they spoil the web. The Lord wants everyone to be submissive under His divine guidance. He will place men where they will submit to be worked into oneness with Christ, bearing His divine similitude.
If SELF will submit to be worked, if you will co-operate with God, pray in unity, work in unity, all taking your place as threads in the web of life, you will grow into a beautiful fabric that will rejoice the universe of God.” (Letter 63, 1898). Remember however that in God’s kingdom unity is not uniformity! NMF 1 John 3:1.