Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, January 3rd.

Sometimes believers struggle with God's will for their lives.

Today, you'll be assured that you can always trust God's plan to craft us into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Do you know what God is up to in your life?

Well, you can know.

Now, you may respond, well, why do you think you can tell me what God is up to in my life?

Simply because in his word, he tells us what he's up to in every one of our lives. With no exception. God is up to something in everybody's life.

And so as you think about what's happening in your life and what's going on, the things that are good,

bad, or indifferent, you may be in a trial, some tribulation, some heartache, or things may be

going just the way you want them. What is he up to? God is certainly

not a distant God. He is a personal father. And that's what I want to talk about in this message

entitled, Molded by the Master. And I want you to turn, if you will, to Jeremiah chapter 18.

Something happens here in Jeremiah that is a perfect setting for what I want to share

with you about what God is up to in all of our lives. Jeremiah chapter 18, he says in verse

one, the word came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, arise and go down to the potter's house. The potter's

house is where they make a pottery of all sorts. And there I shall announce my words to you.

Then I went down to the potter's house and there he was making something on the wheel. But the

vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter so he remade it into

another vessel as it pleased the potter to make then the word of the lord came to me saying

can i not oh house of israel deal with you as this potter does declares the lord behold like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you

in my hand, O house of Israel. Now, God would use the most common things throughout the scriptures

to teach some of his most profound lessons. And that is certainly an example here as he sends Jeremiah down

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