Mercy Trust Outreach MTO

DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONAL
🔘Bishop Dr. John Oche Egah
🔘1/02/2024
🔘Topic: The Potter can be trusted. (Part6)
🔘Text: ROMANS 9:21
“Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel or honorable use and another for common use?”

God the Potter is Both Sovereign & Trustworthy
Granted, it is both easier and comforting to see God as a loving Father and a good Shepherd rather than God the Potter who has complete control over the clay. However, it is important that we understand this two-fold character of God for we cannot have one side of the coin without the other. It is essential we understand both the complete sovereign, righteous, just and holy side of God as well as that of His tenderness, patience and enduring love and faithfulness.

Throughout my years of teaching Sunday School, no matter what age I taught, I emphasized these two things we should always remember:
1. God is in control; He is King and rightfully so. I call him the monarch of Zion. He does what he likes without fear or favor.
2. God loves us; therefore, we can trust Him. Yes, God our potter can be trusted. I know our lives and its circumstances may seem scary at times but, God got this. Because He is righteous and holy, He always does what is right and good; His faithfulness can be trusted.
There is no meanness, hatefulness, or wrong within Him.
-1 John 1:5 tells us He is Light and there is NO darkness in Him.
-Psalm 119:68 tells us He is good and does good. Because He is sovereign, He is always in control; no matter what life may throw at us, we can know “God’s got this!” It did not take Him by surprise and there is NO one, NO thing more powerful than Him.
But God also cares; He adores; He has an everlasting love for us! It’s one thing for someone to be in charge and trustworthy, but it is something altogether different when this One loves you so much He gave His very life for you and for me and for every person - even the babies that never got the chance to draw a breath.

His love is why He could not let us perish although that is the price for our sin. His love is why we have hope in the midst of our failure. His love is why it is safe for us, the clay, to surrender to God the Potter’s hands of grace and mercy even when we may not understand His process.

Bishop Dr. J.O. Egah
~Presiding Bishop
Hope And Power Mega Churcg
Worldwide