Does God Have a Purpose For Me?

Sometimes we feel like we are not getting anywhere in our lives, and we wonder if God has given up on us.

"Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are the work of your hands." Isaiah 64:8, NIV. 

LORD AND FATHER
The two names of God are comforting together. He is the Lord, the one who rules the universe and controls all circumstances. He is the mighty creator; with a word, he put galaxies in the correct place. He is awesome in authority and power.

God is a nurturing and caring Father, who protects and provides for his children. He corrects and trains his children; He considers our ways and best decides how to bring us to full spiritual adulthood. He is the father whose hand we may hold.

CLAY
This is a reminder that God formed man from the dust, (see Genesis 2:7). We are formed out of the common and ordinary. Dust is weak and the soil is a poor construction material.

We are the clay in God's hands. That which is common and little valued becomes a treasure when God puts his hand to it. He can form us and remake us to an object of beauty or service.

POTTER
The potter is a purposeful craftsman. He prepares the clay and equipment. He uses skill to accomplish his designs. The clay cannot resist the pressure of his hands. The clay will not look like anything when it is mined from the soil but when it yields to the potter it becomes beautiful. The potter knows the results and each step brings the clay toward completion.

WORK
God has a work plan for each of us. He is making us into a new image- the image of Christ, (see Galatians 4:19).  We might feel like we are spinning on a potter's wheel, covered with mud, being pushed and pulled this way and that but God is working. He has all power to complete his work, and he is the caring Father- he will not fail.

God made heaven and Earth by his command but when he works in our lives he touches us with his hands. So tender and gentle are His designs he will only accomplish it by his touch.

ACKNOWLEDGE
The verse above is a statement that acknowledges the truth. We must make it our truth and become soft clay in the Father's hand.

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(c)Adron Dozat

The Compassion of God. Psalm 103:13 – 14.

Does your life seem like no one is on your side and understands your difficulty?

“As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.” Psalm 103:13 – 14. NIV.

Compassion is to have sympathy for someone’s suffering but not just feelings- it involves doing; it is when sympathy moves us to tender actions of kindness. God the Father has such compassion for us. The most compassionate thing God did was to send His own Son to die on the cross for us to pay for our sins and free us from sin’s power and judgment. Through this supreme act of compassion, we can become His children.

A father’s compassion is powerful. A judge can have compassion toward a lawbreaker but that is calculated compassion without affection. Mothers have tender compassion but it is not the same mix as a father’s compassion. A father’s compassion has to balance authority, love, insight, and muscle, so it is a very powerful force.

To the faithful, the Fear of God is not like the terror of the child in the dark stormy night. It is respect and reverence; it is a realistic assessment of who The Almighty is. The fear of God is a call for personal humility. It requires us to live a life of keeping God in each decision and action.

This fear is in a compassionate God and Father who knows firsthand how we are formed. He has intimate knowledge of how we are fashioned and how our personalities, our needs, and psyches are made. He understands us all the way to the smallest synapses of neuron cell, He knows us the way God would, yet He remembers we are dust. We are made out of the ordinary and the mundane. How often we forget that we are created out of the common dust of the earth!

We forget many things, sometimes only for a moment or for good; but He remembers without the slightest lapse. God remembers your weakness so He takes it all into account in his dealings with you. He does not ever, ever forget how you are formed and so He will never test or try you beyond your ability. He knows your limits and measures them with His compassion.

P.S. Don’t let the compassion of God slip by. If you have not received Jesus as Savior then tell Him now you grieve for your sins that put him on the cross and receive His gift of salvation.

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(c) Adron 6/3/10

How God Became My Father, Psalm 68:5

My father died when I was nine. My mother needed comfort from guilt and sought to communicate with his ghost, this began a dark trek into the occult. We left the Church and I became a practicing pagan but still felt empty and void.

God is willing to be, “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling.” Psalm 68: 5, NIV.

This does not mean He forces Himself on us; still, he longs to be our Father and He waits for us to seek Him and call on Him.

A FAITHFUL LIFE
My father's death caused me to question spiritual things and begin a search for “Truth.” I spent a lot of time at the library reading books about various myths and beliefs. I befriended others who rejected traditional faith for occult beliefs and we met in the library discussing our own philosophies. God sent a person to work at the library who was a Christian. We mocked him but he faithfully witnessed to Jesus in words and actions, he answered criticisms about God, the Bible, and Jesus.

He shared literature called the 4 Spiritual Laws and it explained the way of salvation. It said:

• God loved me and had a plan for my life.
• My sins separated me from God.
• Jesus died on the cross to pay for my sins, and his resurrection is proof that sin's judgment is satisfied.
• If I accept what Jesus did on the cross for me I will have a new life and eternal relationship with God.

DECISION
One night while listening to the news I considered the world's end was near and with it my own end. Realizing that if I were to die then I would face eternity without Jesus that night I called out and accepted Jesus as my only Savior, and as such, I received the benefits of his death on the cross for me. At that time God became more my father than the one I was born to. There are scars in my life from my father’s death but since his death began the steps that brought me to God I feel they are beautiful scars. It has been over 40 years since that night and I can say it has been my experience that God has been a father to me when I had no other.

THE FATHER YOU NEED
Whatever your sorrow, loss or need you have God is the answer to that need. Call out to Jesus to be your Savior and come to the Lord today. He is willing to be your father, protector, and intimate friend, but he does not come unbidden.

There was a prayer in the back of that track it went something like this…

Lord Jesus, my sins have separated me from you but I believe your death paid for them in full. Please come into my life and be my Savior and lord. Please forgive my sins. And give me the gift of eternal life. Thank you, Lord.

(c) Adron 1/15/10