Restored For Service

Tuesday July 11, 2023

Relationship

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 gives us an illustration of the work of a potter making a useful vessel from the same clay of a pot that had become flawed.

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)

Though we may find ourselves captive to dark forces because of our wicked ways, God has good plans for us, and He will give us the power to carry them out. 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 wanderings. There is nowhere we can go and no sin that we can commit that will separate us from the love of God for us. God’s unfailing love is expressed in the person of the Lord Jesus who came into the world, not to condemn the world, 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 finally finishes with the clay, the new vessel he made will be used for the purpose which the potter determined in advance. When our relationship with God has been restored, we are fit for the purpose for which we were created. We are new creations through Jesus 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 unfailing love and power that can do in me what may seem impossible. However I choose to acknowledge and believe that with You, “All things are possible.” Amen

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