HAVE THINE OWN WAY

Like me, many had plans to launch their dreams and ambitions only to have it all stumped at the last minute for one reason or another.

During a house meeting, someone testified and had this to say, "It doesn't matter what You bring into my life Lord, its okay with me, only have Your way!"

Immediately my thoughts went back to a portion of scripture I had read sometime ago, in Jeremiah 18:1-10:


New International Version (NIV)
18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 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.


5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,

8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

Later on upon examining verse 4, i reflected on the marred vessel in the potter's hand which was re-modeled into another, one which was deemed good to the potter.


The lesson for the need to recognize God's will and to allow Him mold and shape me according to His own design, eventually kicked-in and I took a different viewpoint in the way my directions in life took from its original standpoint.


I also learnt, the marred and re-modeled vessel is from the same source, only transformed by the potter's ingenuity. That taught me to accept, I may not have been up to a task at an earlier stage, but having been re-modeled by the experiences I went through over the years, I now may be in a better position to contemplate the given task or responsibility.

The molding of our lives according to His ways thwarts condemnation and disaster- v8.


Unlike conventional warfare and competition, the ways of God differs, in that "In surrender, one finds peace".


Ask yourself today, 'Are you letting the Potter have His way in your life?"