August 22: A NEW SITE PLAN

I am fascinated by what men can do with bulldozers and other earth-moving equipment. They can totally change the topography of land until you won’t recognize it. Filling valleys or leveling hills, they can make uninhabitable places attractive communities.
A contractor showed me one day on his computer what a certain piece of land looked like and then pushed a few buttons and the screen revealed what it was going to look like after the dirt had been rearranged. Later, I visited the project and it was just as the computer had projected. Radical change took place because of superior knowledge and skilled hands at the control of machines.
That’s the way it is when God begins to work with us. We are a lot of misshaped clay, indistinguishable from so much other clay and seeming without any real possibility for usefulness. But God sees the possibilities if he can just begin a major renovation project. So he goes to work. He convinces us of the possibilities that we never imagined. (Do you think I knew what God was going to do to me 53 years ago when I surrendered to Him?) If we enter into covenant agreement with him, he then accomplishes surprising things.
Jeremiah the Prophet has a message for us in chapter 18, “can I not do with you as a potter does? Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand.” God knows how to work with dirt!
The poet Adelaide Pollard prayed “have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way; Thou art the potter, I am the clay.”
The theological message of Genesis 2 is that God created mankind from the “dust of the ground”. The prophet Isaiah was surprised that the dust-creature should fight back against it’s creator but that’s what happened.
It’s best to put yourself in God’s hands and let him make you over according to his plan. He will make you a beautiful person. That would be better than any “Reality Show” makeover that you will eve see on television!

“What an offer You make, Dear God, that you can make us new and
usable in the Kingdom of God! When can we start? Please! Amen”