Divine Sovereignty in Action - Christ be Exalted
"For we are His workmanship."
-EPHESIANS
2:10 [KJV]
Consider
what is here declared of those who are saved by grace through
faith—that they are God's "workmanship"—the fruit and
product of His creative hand. All, then, that we are and all that we
have that is spiritual, and as such acceptable to God, we owe to the
special operation of His power. There is not a thought of our heart,
word of our lips, or work of our hands, which is truly holy and
heavenly, simple and sincere, glorifying to God or profitable to man,
of which He is not by His Spirit and grace the divine and immediate
Author.
How
beautifully is this expressed by the Church of old, and what an echo
do her accents find in every gracious heart: "But now, O
LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the
clay, and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of
Thy hand" [ISAIAH
64:8]. How
suitable, how expressive is the figure of the clay and the potter.
Look at the moist clay under the potter's hand. How soft, how tender,
how passive is the clay; how strong, how skilful are the hands which
mould it into shape. As the wheel revolves, how every motion of the
potter's fingers shapes the yielding clay, and with what exquisite
skill does every gentle pressure, every imperceptible movement
impress upon it the exact form which it was in his mind to make it
assume.
How sovereign was the hand which first took the clay, and as divine sovereignty first took it, so divine sovereignty shapes it when taken into form.
How sovereign was the hand which first took the clay, and as divine sovereignty first took it, so divine sovereignty shapes it when taken into form.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
JANUARY
18th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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