
The Lord is Near
to the Potting Wheel
Be still for a moment. Consider your ability to show a gentle heart.
Philippians 4:5 (NASB)
Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.
As you reflect, allow the Holy Spirit to come close. Give ear to His Word inside your heart. Understand His inclinations towards you. The Lord speaks to your thoughts. He leaves impressions in your heart. Are you listening?
How do you listen and response to other people?
We are more able to understand the needs around us when we are keeping ourselves still.
James 1:19 (AMP)
Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];
We have to learn to be still in the Lord’s presence so that we hear His voice. It’s easier to be still when we’re sitting quietly, but are we able to carry ourselves in stillness throughout the day? Are we reactive or are we peaceful enough that He can guide us?
Life, each day, can feel like it runs away on its own and we’re running after it. But God wants us to keep up in stillness. Be master of each moment and keep up. The Lord is always near.
Reactiveness destroys peace and destroys relationship, firstly with the Lord, then also with people, and finally with ourselves.
Even when we’re not sure what we’re about to do or say the Lord is able to direct us in the moment. We need to learn to move in His flow, like a piece of wet clay being moulded in the potters hands. He is gentle. He is humble of heart. These are ways we can know we’re being led by Him.
If we know His character we will better understand His desires for us. Are our desires the same? Dry clay is unworkable. It must be wet in order to be moulded into a useful vessel. God seeks ways to work through us. Every day we are like clay in The Potter's hands.
The Lord is near to the potting wheel. Do you know how The Potter wants to shape you?
Jeremiah 18:2-4 (NIV)
Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Isaiah 64:8 (NIV)
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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