Daily Scripture Threshing for Sunday, April 30, 2023
Today’s Text: Jeremiah 18:1-11
Key Verses: Jeremiah 18:6 (ESV): “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel."
We are totally in the hands of the Lord. He made us. He can remold us. He knows all the what and how of everything pertaining to us. However, a careful look at this prophetic revelation gives clearer insight into the operation of the Divine Potter: He only remolds and uses those who allow Him to reshape them into His use. He does not force unwilling vessels into His divine purpose. Except a clay is on the potter’s wheel, the potter’s will to mold it has no relevance. As long as we too are reluctant to let God perform His intent in us, we remain marred as we are.
That is why, because of His love, He sends this oracle ahead to call upon us to return moldable and submissive to the will of our maker. He wants us to quit the fantasy that we have already attained. Or, that we already know just how best to serve Him. Except we leave ourselves on the Potter’s hands, we can neither correctly estimate our weaknesses nor experience His divine strength available to us. We can never come close to the tasks He is capable of using us to accomplish; or the glory He is able to bestow.
The Potter is able both to work with our weaknesses as He is with our strengths. If we allow Him, He can mold us into any instrument meet for His purpose. When God's assignment demands humility, he finds a servant willing to humble himself so that He easily molds such for fitted purposes. When His work requires zeal, He does not fill a slur with His Spirit’s power. When He needs a holy vessels, He fits only those who allow Him to deal with the impurities of sin.
Quote for the Day: “The glory of the clay is never in its property but in its proriety and propriety; not in its worth but in its works.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear Lord, I thank you for seeing me as a work in progress. Please help me to be malleable. Mold me into Your desire for my life. Please take hold of my fleshly desires and mold and shape them into Yours. Let me give You all that I am so that You can use me for all that You wish — in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
With all my love and prayers,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.
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