Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that now there’s something in these, I’ve got one more. I’ll write it. But there’s something in this combination that’s a missing ingredient. Person. Too many times when we think of the potter’s house, whether it be in caricature, in a parable way we tend to think that all of this going around will produce – because I’ve said Romans 8, “To be conformed to the likeness, the image of His Son.” Ephesians 4. There are many places. “He begun a good work,” Philippians 1:6, He begun a good work, which He’ll bring to fruition, to completion. But too many times it’s looked over. I don’t have anything in the equation except faith and trusting Him. Once I am faithing – and that’s what all of this boils down to. We can sift all this away and ask the question, “Do you trust” – I’m sorry to say it like this and I don’t mean to be blasphemous. But do you trust the one being potter, the one who died for you enough to say, “I commit my life to you”? And quit trusting the flesh.
I got letters from people this week that my heart just melted. This woman who just loves the teaching, she said, “They kicked me out of the church because I smoked cigarettes.” They kicked her out of the church. And I thought how is this woman going – is she going to be turned off on God because of this, because she got kicked out of the church because of that? No. There’s more. How many letters I get from people that say, “I have an alcohol problem. And when my church found out, they kicked me out.” I’m sorry. Somewhere the message is lost for me because my Bible says Jesus came to save that which was lost.
But do you trust the one being potter, the one who died for you enough to say, “I commit my life to you”? And quit trusting the flesh.
