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Be like a clay in potter`s hands

Put yourself in God`s hands and let Him work on you

02/05/2017

By: Apostle Valdemiro Santiago

Article by: Victor Correa

Jeremiah was concerned. In chapter 16, God reprimanded the people for idolatry, in the 17, Jeremiah seek in favor of those who still believe in the Lord, to an extent that God shows indignity because of those who withdrew from the Lord. Jeremiah`s life was lonesome while the world corrupted itself and got away from the Lord more and more. When people lose faith, they corrupt. When people gossip, they corrupt

Today, the church is treated very badly. If anything happens inside it, they close the church. But God saves us. He is like a wave on the sea. However, He would never lose balance and would never let any evil get into our lives.

In our reading, Jeremiah 18.1, the prophet is taken before the potter at that place the prophet got surprised. God is like the potter and says, “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter:” He wouldn`t allow us to mar it. The vessel just marred in the hands of the potter because God allowed it to happen God asked the prophet to observe the potter working with the vessel in silence after he made it again. God entered and started talking to the prophet to compare and say that He remakes us according to His wishes. The potter didn`t know the subject of God with the prophet because the subject was between the prophet and the Lord. Without the awareness of the potter, God used him to teach the prophet that, theoretically was bigger than the potter I believe that, when the potter remade the vessel, it became the best vessel the potter ever made. It was God working with His Own hands. Because when God is involved with the work, everything happens His way and He wants everything to be perfect. Who gives the skill to every professional is God None of us arrived at God in perfect condition. A vessel, that falls, loses its appearance of a vessel. It becomes simple clay, but God shaped it again. I wanted to have wisdom and skill to make you understand that. It`s so extraordinary. Who never faced an impossible, irreversible, no solution condition? God said that the condition may be the worst of all, but He makes us perfect That`s what God says, and it doesn`t depend on Him, but on each one of us. He became committed to help those who are committed to worship Him and accept Him. He performs in the life of those who want and accept, but those who don`t want, He won`t do anything. If we were potters, even our balance would depend on God, but we are clay. If the potter depends on God to balance his work, figure out the clay that doesn`t have any skill. If we face any difficulties in life, The Great Potter just needs to be with the clay in hands. Differently from that clay, we reason and have free will, and have the skill of choosing. So, church, how about choosing to put yourself in in the Great Artisan`s hands? This way, He will make a perfect vessel. If we don`t disturb God`s work, our lives will be successful. Vanity is terrible; it dries the human being. If each one of us, one by one, places as clay, the Potter will work and He knows how to shape.