7/5/25 For the Master’s Purpose

As we cover the organic move of God to create us as individuals, exclusive & in the words of the Bible fearfully wonderfully made meaning made to fill purposes & common use while revering God in those purposes. We have learned we were made from the inner portions of the earth taking us back to Gen 2. The Lord had a vision for each of us from this to form our very being starting with the soul extended to the skeletal structure and knew the number of your days. Paul in Romans 9 testifies a further expansion by what learned from Ps139 in that we are clay in the hands of a potter. Isa 64 expands.

“But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” – Isaiah 64:8

Let’s consider this before we go deeper into the premise that there is someone beyond your control at work in your life. I want you to consider this. Isaiah calls the Lord his Father, just as we should. Remember you are his vision. With the shaping of the clay it is a hand we are being made for a set time frame, dwell in a certain environment, endure the conditions of that environment along with the other articles of pottery around you.

At this stage you are a show piece equipped to be placed in this world with the potential to be more. This allegory is not lost on the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 29:16 – “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?”

This is Lord speaking to David. God cannot be manipulated. If he could, he would be the clay. The question here is does not the Lord understand our limitations, our situations, our stresses and the reality of what we encounter? “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33a). But wait does not the Bible say that The Lord will not give us more than we can handle?

You cannot find that phrase in the Bible. Let’s look to examples. Paul & Barnabas among others in Acts were tested heavily while on the journey to share the gospel to the ignorant. But Paul wrote this: “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death” (2 Corinthians 1:8–9). That sounds like it stretched beyond the boundaries of sustainment. “This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God” (2 Corinthians 1:9).

Guess what though, that is life, saved or not we all have difficulties, we all face conditions we do not like and we all get challenged with our belief system. You are not omit to this if or if not you are a child of God. No one is omit from this. Sickness, disease, injustice, affect us all because we live in a world run by deception, pride and lust not a world run by belief and following Jesus. This deception is global because of the disease known as self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence. None of which are biblical words, manifested from psychology in the 1880’s. Do we have the right to tell our creator what we are capable of, what our purpose is? Let’s go back to last week.

Romans 9:²¹ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

We are made for special purposes and common use. Ordinary, extraordinary it includes all who have been & will be created. We look at what can and has been done by individuals & teams who have come together to accomplish feats. We marvel at some of these things in all fields others are not so impressive because of our individuality, interests & imagination. These are personal traits. But what if there is more? Honestly, the potential of a creation fully realized.

Haven’t we all wanted to live up to and operate in our full potential? Do we have a way to know what that is? As we look to conclude let’s dig deeper into that. Remember we came from the earth, formed in the womb to fulfill the vision of God. Initially we are created to so special things and common purposes, we are created not to just be alive but to live. This means we have to connect to the source to fully operate in this new dimension.

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” – Ephesians 2:10

The preface here ties directly into PS 139, Isaiah 64 & Romans 9, but the following portions could not be revealed until after Pentecost. The purposes and common use but these are good works. Now let’s not get this mixed up with a culture who has highjacked word meanings and changed what it really is. GR word agathois used 101x in NT describes what originates from God and is empowered by Him in their life, through faith. So unless you are in Christ these special things and common purposes are all vanity, of the flesh and worthless.

The Master’s first purpose is to see that life is better when you submit. You willingly give up control & accept the release of the who you are.

Have you done this? Do you seek this? God prepared so that we should walk in them. That means travel, take them with you, operate in them, because you were crafted to do so.