Today's OneWord is "Reshaped"
The Lord said to Jeremiah, "Get up and go down to the potter's house, and I will give you my message there. So I went down to the potter's house and saw him working at the potter's wheel. He was using his hands to make a pot from clay, but something went wrong with it. So he used that clay to make another pot the way he wanted it to be. Then the Lord spoke His Word to me: "O house of Israel, can I not do the same to you as the potter has done to the clay? You are in my hands like the clay in the potter's hands" (Jeremiah 18:1-6).
Have you ever felt as if you were the least likely person God would use to accomplish His will? I can assure you God can mold us into what He wants us to become. He loves to use the weak and powerless to make a difference for Him. You know the story of Esther. Look at Esther's credentials. She came from a people who were living as outcasts in a foreign land. She had no higher education and no money. Matter of fact, she was an orphan, but God molded her into a queen, who saved her people from genocide.
Ester knew she was in the hands of God. We may not have the same experiences like Esther, but do not let people count you out. We can make a difference. Today take a walk into your histories and recognize those cracks that God reshaped. If you were once a harlot, He can reshape you. He transformed Rahab. If you were once an outcast, He can reshape you. He converted Ruth. If you were once an adulterer, He can reshape you. He changed "the wife of Uriah" (Bathsheba). If you once committed incest with an in- law, He can reshape you. He altered Tamar. What is so profound about these women is that when you read the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 4, you find their names.
They became part of Jesus' family through the sovereign grace and mercy of God! "God… is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). If He used naughty girls behaving badly in the Bible, He can remodel us. Sometimes we forget that we are the clay and He is the Potter. He had to adjust me. I was once a disobedient girl behaving badly, speaking badly, and living badly, but God looks at His creation now! No matter what your past may have been. Ask God to forgive you and make you over again.
As much as we do not, like whom we used to be, what we used to do or how we used to do it, He loves sinners and wants to save us. We cannot control the circumstances of life, but we can control how we respond to them. Live lessons are not coincidental, but beneficial. Some people think they have no power to affect change, but God works out the situation in our past for our advantage to complete His plan for our lives. Stop letting the past haunt you and remember you are in the hands of the Potter and He can transform you for such a time as now.
Thank You Lord. I am not what I want to be, but I know I am not what I used to be.
Have you ever felt as if you were the least likely person God would use to accomplish His will? I can assure you God can mold us into what He wants us to become. He loves to use the weak and powerless to make a difference for Him. You know the story of Esther. Look at Esther's credentials. She came from a people who were living as outcasts in a foreign land. She had no higher education and no money. Matter of fact, she was an orphan, but God molded her into a queen, who saved her people from genocide.
Ester knew she was in the hands of God. We may not have the same experiences like Esther, but do not let people count you out. We can make a difference. Today take a walk into your histories and recognize those cracks that God reshaped. If you were once a harlot, He can reshape you. He transformed Rahab. If you were once an outcast, He can reshape you. He converted Ruth. If you were once an adulterer, He can reshape you. He changed "the wife of Uriah" (Bathsheba). If you once committed incest with an in- law, He can reshape you. He altered Tamar. What is so profound about these women is that when you read the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 4, you find their names.
They became part of Jesus' family through the sovereign grace and mercy of God! "God… is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). If He used naughty girls behaving badly in the Bible, He can remodel us. Sometimes we forget that we are the clay and He is the Potter. He had to adjust me. I was once a disobedient girl behaving badly, speaking badly, and living badly, but God looks at His creation now! No matter what your past may have been. Ask God to forgive you and make you over again.
As much as we do not, like whom we used to be, what we used to do or how we used to do it, He loves sinners and wants to save us. We cannot control the circumstances of life, but we can control how we respond to them. Live lessons are not coincidental, but beneficial. Some people think they have no power to affect change, but God works out the situation in our past for our advantage to complete His plan for our lives. Stop letting the past haunt you and remember you are in the hands of the Potter and He can transform you for such a time as now.
Thank You Lord. I am not what I want to be, but I know I am not what I used to be.
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