Bishop R.L. Sharp  

ROMANS 9:21
ROMANS 9:16-21



Look closely here, Paul said that the potter has power over the clay. God molds us and makes us,and holds us in his hand. It's no news to you that every poter has the job of molding and making, and holding things in their hand.

The reason that God is involved in the pottery process is that God needs instruments, and not objects. Any potter can make an object to sit on the shelf, any potter can make an artifact that is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, any potter can make an item of retail for sale that man can purchase or leave alone. But God does not need objects, God needs instruments. Far too many
who are engaged in the christian enterprise are objects, and not instruments.

1.) An instrument says I'm good for something.
2.) An instrument says I have purpose.
3.) An instrument says I have value.
4.) An instrument says I can be used. Always remember that the potter does have the power over the clay, the potter has creative power, he brings into being that which was not. The potter has creative power he can stoop down in the dust of the earth and pick up lumps of clay and breathe the breath of life into it until it walks, and talks a natural man.
The potter has creative power but more then that the potter has re-creative power. Jeremiah says that sometimes the pot is marred in the potters hand (Jeremiah 18:1-4). Sometimes the pot does not do what it was designed to do, But the potter just takes it and breaks it, molds it,and make it over again till it becomes what he wants it to be. I'm so glad to know that when I'm marred and broken the Lord in not through with me yet. I want him to re-creat me again and again until I becomes what he want me to be. We end where we began God molds us makes us, and holds us in his hand. What a mighty God we serve! right or wrong up or down in poverty or in wealth sickness or health come what may I can say that I'm in his hand.

Remember this a gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.