Endurance Through Transformation

[Christ4Ever]

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 ESV

When a potter makes a jar, two important things happen to the clay. First, it is shaped. Second, it is hardened. Only after clay is hardened does it become waterproof and useful as a vessel.

When a potter makes a jar, two important things happen to the clay. First, it is shaped. Second, it is hardened. Only after clay is hardened does it become waterproof and useful as a vessel.

Isaiah 64:8 (ESV) says “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter, we are all the work of your hand.”

In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul warns his readers that the world will try to change the clay of our identities to fit its mold. If we want to be useful vessels for God, we need to be more than conformed—we need to be fundamentally changed by the fire of God’s influence. Though the process of transformation will be painful to our selfish desires, it will make us useful for God’s plans.

If you feel like you are in the fire today, thank God for transforming you into someone who will be more useful for His purposes.

Prayer: Lord, I am clay in Your hands. Shape me into a useful vessel. Keep me from conforming to the world’s mold. Help me endure through the fire to be good and acceptable and perfect for You.

 

[complete]

'Wherein ye greatly rejoice,
though now for a season, if need be,
ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
That the trial of your faith,
being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honour and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Whom having not seen, ye love;
in Whom, though now ye see Him not,
yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.'
(1 Peter 1:6)

 

[complete]

' For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
That he would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages,
world without end.
Amen.'
(Eph 3:14-21)

 

[Christ4Ever]

Dear Sister @complete
Thank-you for sharing those two posts with God's Word that touch and lift up my Spirit!
Give Him Praise!!!
Alleluia!!!

With the Love of Christ Jesus.
YBIC
Nick
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