Guest Writer: Laquisha Craig
Difficult times can bring out the best or worse in you depending on your faith. How many times have you been in a difficult, painful or overwhelming situation and with great despair cry out "Oh Lord, please get me out of this! This is killing me!" Good news!!! You are absolutely right! It IS killing you! It's killing everything in you that is not like God.
In Jeremiah 18, the Lord leads the prophet Jeremiah to a Potter's house. There he sees the Potter molding clay. Verse 4 tells us that the vessel was “marred in the Potter’s hand, and he made it into a different vessel as seemed good to him to make it."
Because the clay was not yet what he desired, the Potter had to stop, and mold it again. The encouraging news in this Scripture is that although the vessel was flawed it remained in the Potter's hand. God asked a question: "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this Potter? Look, as the clay is in the Potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!" (v. 6) God wants to remove our faults and mold us into a beautiful vessel as we trust Him and rest in His hands.
Are you able to trust God in your painful, difficult place? Will you allow Him to mold you, no matter how hard or how long the process?
Consider the benefits of trusting God. There is a great exchange; your weakness for His strength, your worry for His peace, your confusion for His soundness of mind, your sadness for His joy, and your fear for faith from Him. It takes trust in GOD to be able to believe and receive God. Only the Spirit of God in you can respond to the things of God. He has to do away with your flesh so that He can get to Himself. So, the next time you feel like "it's killing you”... let it. God wants to reveal Himself in and to you. Embrace it, trust God and let your new declaration be: Thank You Lord! Hallelujah! This is killing ME! In order to be gold, we have to go through fire, for it destroys all impurities.
"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this Potter? says the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the Potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel."
Jeremiah 18:6
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This is so much of what the Lord does to us all daily. He looks forward to us being without blemish and it takes molding to shape us to how He visions us.
So often we get comfortable with the ways that are not acceptable to God and it is as if we are at a tug of war. But God if faithful to keep molding us to be righteous, acceptable in His sight.
I appreciate this word and the guest writers the Lord has humbly sent.
Thank you and continue to let God shine.
This was an AWESOME word! Just thinking about how clay is made with water & mud is enough but to think even deeper about the formation & sitting in the fire until it's complete is an etirely different level.It takes time to be molded into the christian that you should be & once you've gone through the fire you never want to return. Adrien Hawk
Yes, it does kill us to be more like HIM. It is necessary to get rid of sin. The clay goes through the fire so true. It is so needed so an exchange can come through. Thank you Lord for allowing us to be in the Potter's hand but not shaped by man. Thank you Lord for allowing us to die daily as we become more like you in all that we do. Awesome!
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