When the Potter Is for Us

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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With all the power in the universe and with the absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, God is for us.

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0:00.0	March 12, when the potter is for us,
0:06.5	woe to him who strives with him, who formed him,
0:10.2	a pot among earthen pots.
0:12.9	Does the clay say to him who forms it?
0:16.5	What are you making?
0:17.8	Or your work has no handles, Isaiah 45, 9.
0:25.8	The majesty of God is magnified
0:28.9	when we see him through the lens of creation,
0:31.7	ex nihilo, out of nothing.
0:35.6	He commands nothingness, and it obeys,
0:39.8	and becomes something.
0:43.1	Out of nothing, he makes the clay,
0:45.3	and out of the clay, he makes us,
0:48.1	the pottery of the Lord, Isaiah 45, 9.
0:52.8	His possession, destined for his glory,
0:56.7	in total dependence on him.
0:59.9	Know that the Lord he is God,
1:02.1	it is he who made us, and we are his.
1:05.5	We are his people in the sheep of his pasture,
1:08.4	Psalm 100, verse 3.
1:11.8	It is a humbling thing to be a sheep,
1:14.9	and a pot that belonged to somebody else.
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