We are the clay,
you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand (Isaiah 64:8).
Submitting to the
hands of the Potter is a matter of trust. The Bait of Satan author
John Bevere writes: “When you know God would never do anything to harm . . .
you, and whatever He does or does not do in your life is in your best interest,
then you will give yourself freely to Him” [9]. Only then can we trust him to
work out what’s best for us and in us.
The question is: Do
we trust God? Do we believe he has our best interests at heart? If so,
then we can give ourselves to our Potter, trusting that what he forms in us
will be better than what we could form into ourselves left to our own devices.
In the course of
Isaiah’s writings Jerusalem had been threatened by Assyria and delivered from
that threat, but not delivered from destruction at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar
a hundred years later. Exiled to Babylon, the people waited 70 years for their
deliverance. Once that deliverance came and the population was restored to
Jerusalem, Isaiah helped them move beyond the past as they looked once again to
the future.
Let us be reminded
one last time that Isaiah speaks to restoration beyond judgment. We can always
trust God because not even failure… not even death is final.
TODAY’S MEDITATION
What is God doing in your
life this week? How is he shaping you?
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