When the Potter Is for Us

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 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,
0:10.0	a pot among earthen pots.
0:13.0	Does the clay say to him who forms it,
0:16.0	What are you making?
0:18.0	Or, your work has no handles, Isaiah 459.
0:25.1	The majesty of God is magnified when we see him through the lens of creation ex-Nehalo
0:32.8	out of nothing.
0:35.3	He commands nothingness, and it obeys and becomes something.
0:43.3	Out of nothing he makes the clay, and out of the clay he makes us the pottery of the Lord,
0:50.3	Isaiah 459. His possession, destined for his glory,
0:56.7	in total dependence on Him.
1:00.0	Know that the Lord He is God,
1:02.2	it is He who made us and we are His.
1:05.6	We are His people in the sheep of his pasture,
1:08.4	Psalm 100 verse 3.
1:17.4	It is a humbling thing to be a sheep and a pot that belonged to somebody else.
1:24.2	This morning, I was reading in Isaiah and found another statement about God's majesty. When I put it together with God's absolute power and rights as creator,
1:29.5	there was a combustion that went off in my heart. Boom.
1:35.6	Isaiah 4321 says,
1:38.5	The Lord in majesty will be for us, for us, for us, for us. The Creator is for us and not against us. With all the power
1:53.7	and the universe and with absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, he is for us.
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