Divine Sovereignty - Great Consolation


The Lord instructed Jeremiah to visit the potter’s house and there he learned that the Lord not only has the right to do what He wills with His own, but He exercises that right. "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel" [JEREMIAH 18:6].

My friends, when the people of God encounter danger, difficulty, disease and death, there is no truth that will comfort the worried mind, soothe the troubled soul and calm the anxious heart as being assured that our Lord sovereignly controls all things. Now, if we give way to carnal reason and distrust, we will quickly be discouraged, dismayed and disheartened. The hymn writer said, "Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan His work in vain."

Child of God, let us confront the question God asks, "Cannot I do with you as this potter?" Are we not His property? Are we not His children, His offspring, His precious jewels? Are we not His Israel, chosen in Christ unto salvation before the world began? Did He not redeem us with the blood of His own dear Son? Has He not promised that "All things work together for good to them that love God?"

These things being so, let us pray for grace to not merely submit to the sovereignty of the Lord, but to rejoice and be glad in Him who does all things well! "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth" [I CHRONICLES 16:31].

-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd

Thirteenth Street Baptist church of Ashland, Kentucky USA

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