The work of his Hands
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7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me. 8 The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
In times of trouble, David found solace in the fact that he was the work of God’s hand.
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: 2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!
We are in the potter’s hand, we have given our life to him.
We have made the right decision to be in God’s hand.
You don’t wan’t to put your life in your own hand, you don’t want to put your life in other’s people hand. You wan’t to be in the Lord’s hand.
He does what seems good to him in our life.
The question God raised “Can i not do with you as this potter?”
Does not the potter have a right to do what he pleases with his clay.
What the Potter Expects us to Know
He expects us to know that the potter has total control over the clay.
6 Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.
2. he expects us to know that all things that he works in our life is for good and knowing this, we have to trust him.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Notice, it does not say we understand, but rather we know
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
If we do not understant this two important principles, we will stumble when God does certain things in our life that we may not understand.
1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
The desciples automatically assumed that what had happen to this man was evil. Hence they tried to reason that it had something to do with sin.
Nonetheless, Jesus made it clear to them that this had happen to this man by the divine purpose of God, that God’s work may be revealed and he may be glorified.
There are things that happen in our life that we may deem evil because of our understanding what seem good and evil according to the human perspective. In reality, it is God’s work and he is working something that is good.
The preacher and the blind men
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3 Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; 9 When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; 10 When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; 11 When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’
1 Then Job answered the Lord and said: 2 “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Jacob as an example,
Jacob lost Joseph for 17 years
yet not one time did he complain to God, or bring anything against God.
In fact when he found out, he went first to a place called bersheeba and there sacrificed to God. He offered thanksgiving.
1 So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.” 3 So He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. 4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.” 5 Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
God did not tell him what really happened to his son until he was told by his others sons that he lives.
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
11 And Israel said to Joseph, “I had not thought to see your face; but in fact, God has also shown me your offspring!”
We need to be like Jacob,
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.
Joseph
16 Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread. 17 He sent a man before them— Joseph—who was sold as a slave. 18 They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. 19 Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him. 20 The king sent and released him, The ruler of the people let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his possessions, 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.
24 Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord.
14 Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!
Conclusion
Let us pray that God may give stregth to our heart