ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 115

                                            ONE HEARTBEAT             AWAY

        PART 115


(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)

Chapter 11

Reflect the Light of the Son

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, 
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Anonymous

Now that you have become justified, it is time to become sanctified. What that means is that God is in the molding business, of shaping you into the man or woman of God that He wants you to be. The analogy in the Bible is of a Potter and clay.

"But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father, we are the clay and Thou art our Potter; and we all are the work of Thine hand."  
(Isaiah 64:8)

Just as the potter sits at the potter's wheel, and molds the clay into what he wants it to be, God wants to mold our lives and do great things in us, and through us while we are still here on earth. 

If the potter doesn't like what  the clay is becoming, he doesn't throw the clay away; he just pushes it down and starts forming it into what he does want it to be. It's the same way with God, He doesn't throw His children away when we do something wrong. Instead, He puts a desire in our hearts to humble ourselves - to push ourselves down and repent to Him. Then He starts to reshape us.

This is where the fun is in following God. As He continues that shaping process, we become more and more fulfilled in our individuality. And at the same time we become more like Him. Then we are on a journey to become so obedient to Him that He can use us
in ways that we cannot even imagine at this moment in our lives!

Charles Spurgeon  said: 

"It is remarkable that the Holy Spirit has given us very few deathbed scenes in the Book of God. We have very few in the Old Testament and fewer still in the New. And I take it that the reason may be, because the Holy Ghost would have us take more account on how we live than on how we die, for life is the main business. He who learns to die daily, while he lives will find no difficulty to breath out his soul for the last time into the hands of his Creator. " 
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