Restored For Service
Saturday July 7, 2018
Is there still hope for us after years of living in an addictive and destructive lifestyle? The answer is, YES! To build up our hope, the Bible uses the story of a potter remaking something useful from a flawed vessel. Even though we may have turned to wicked ways and now find ourselves captive to dark forces, God still has plans for us and the power to bring them about in our lives.
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. (Jeremiah 18:4 NIV) God does not forget us when we go astray. God pursues us even when we are lost and alone in the wilderness of our sinful making. There is nowhere we can go and no sin that we can commit that will separate us from the love that God has for us. God’s unconditional love for us is expressed in the person of our Lord Jesus who came into the world, not to condemn it, but that the world through Him might be saved.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39 NIV)
When the potter is finally finished with the clay, the new vessel is fit for the purpose for which it has been made. The old marred vessel no longer exists. Old things have gone, and new life has come. When our relationship with God has been restored we are now fit for the purpose we were created to fulfill. We are new creations through Christ our Lord. God, who has begun a good work in us, will see it through until Jesus comes again.
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. (Philippians 1:6 NIV)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, I trust you to work out your good purpose for my life. I am thankful for Your unconditional love and power that can do what seems impossible to me. Amen
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