THE CREATIVE POWER OF GOD (3).

*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*

*THE CREATIVE POWER OF GOD (3).*

*Scripture Treasure.*

Rom 9: 21 *Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?*

*Insight and Highlight.*

Complement God's creation. Do not compete with it.

*Scripture Commentaries.*

God creates with purpose. Whether He creates with honour or dishonour, everyone must either fulfill His purpose or their purposes in life.

Yesterday, we looked at some reasons why God exercises His distinctive creative power.

Firstly, God is sovereign. He is supreme. He does and creates as He pleases, Psa 115:3, 135:6.

Secondly, there are people created for destruction.

Thirdly, why would God create some people for honour while some are unto dishonour.

We continue with the first to further illustrate His sovereignty and the supremacy to do and create as He pleases.

Rom 9:21 teaches us two things.

First is that there are destinies. Destinies differ and this is the truth behind the distinctiveness of His creation that makes us differ in purposes.

Second is that we can be what God wants us to be if we cooperate with God as regards His perfect and destined will for us.  Jer 18:4 says *And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.*

While there are destinies and that what people would be in life is premeditated by God, God (the porter) has perfect plans, a perfect will of God for everyone but what a person is destined to be by God can be altered by a person's wrong choice.

This is because everyone created unto dishonour altered God's purpose as a porter to make him a vessel unto honour.

Reuben altered his own destiny through immorality, Gen 35:22, 49:4.

Every son of Jacob had a destiny. They would be nations but one of them would preserve the others. This was Joseph's purpose and destiny, Gen 45:7.

The wickedness of his brothers made worse their own destinies by making them bow to him.

If everything had gone the way God planned it, Joseph would still be the preserver but may not be in a way to subordinate them.

On Joseph's dream of sheaves. Sheaves are not bodies enough to bow as human.

It was not God's intention that the elder would bow or serve the younger unlike in the case of Jacob and Esau.

It was their undoing and the consequences was their obeisance to their younger one.

God used the impossible to carry a possible intent of evil people and the more impossible a revelation may appear the strongest possibility that it is from God. Any revelation that is beyond human understanding is most likely from God ref, Gen 22:2, 1 Cor 1:27

On Joseph's second dream where *"......the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance...."* to him, it ought to be noted that while the bible teaches that parents do not exasperate their children, it preaches honour from a child to his parent rather than a parent bowing to his child.

So Joseph's brother constituted themselves to evil doing by their jealousy. They could have been respectable and have abided in honour. Though Joseph was destined to preserve the nation, he would still be a brother, though in power, yet under their respectful control.

Man's refusal to go with God's original and purposeful makeup for them will defeat God's purpose for them.

Ruben earned the name *".....unstable as water,..."*

Simeon and Levi were referred to as *".... instruments of cruelty....."*

While Joseph earned the name as *"..... a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well......"* his brothers all together earned the name of the archers who *".......have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:....."*, Gen 49: 4,5,22,23.

None of these was God's perfect plans for eleven out of twelve brothers who would eventually be nations.

Their hatred to Joseph began the series of communal and interconflicts including land disputes, tribal rivalries, and later, as civil wars between them as kinsmen and brothers from the same father, ref Judg 20:18, 2 Sam 2:8-3:39.

We can not be the excellence of God's creative power if we are against Him.

If we release ourselves to God, we will fulfill His original plans at creation for us.

*Remorse corner.*

Rebellion of the clay derailed the potter's design.

*Call to Word action.*

2 Tim 2:21 *If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.*

*The Christian clarion duty.*

The more we resist God, the farther we get removed from God's original plan.

*Prayer.*

Lord, help me to complement Your creative power in my life. Do not let me compete with You, in Jesus name.

Good morning all and have a blessed day.

God bless you.

Shalom.