The Stubborn Clay - Love Worth Finding - February 25
February 25, 2025 – The Stubborn Clay
Romans 9:19-22
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Pray Over This
“You will say to me then, ‘Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?’ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?”
Romans 9:19-22
Ponder This
Some people have the idea that God says, “I’m going to make two vessels. I’m going to make a vessel to send to Heaven. I’m going to make another vessel to send to Hell. People are just like clay, and I’m the potter. So, I’m going to make vessels and determine where they go.” Is that how God is displayed in the Bible and specifically in the Book of Romans? No! What potter would ever make a vessel just so he could destroy it? Can you imagine a potter in a potter’s shop making a bunch of vessels and setting them on a shelf, and then taking a stick and breaking them all to pieces?
The reason that some vessels were destroyed in the above passage is they did not realize the purpose of the potter. Look in the passage where it says, “Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’” It doesn’t say the thing created, but the thing formed. Here God is shaping, and some will not take the shaping. God is longsuffering. God is forming and working, but these vessels of wrath are not yielding to the hands of the potter. Will you let God form you instead of insisting on your own way?
- How do we yield to God’s forming? How do we know who He is forming us to be like?
- What are some things God has put on your heart that you have resisted?
Practice This
Surrender to God and ask Him to help you to obey where you have been resisting Him.
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