Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
When people fail to see God as God then they will
never understand just how Sovereign God is and how that God never request
anything from people. God does not request that we be honorable, He demands it,
however, God knows our frame and in its natural state we can never be anything
but sinful and dishonoring toward God. God is nothing like you and I, He is as pure
as pure can be, God cannot be anything like us or else He is nothing but a man.
When we see God, we see a Being that needs nothing, He needs no one, and He
never fails. God never request anything from any other creature or being,
because He controls everything. People mistakenly make God appear to be human,
they make Him to have feelings, cares, they make Him to be dependent on people
as though we can add anything to God the very Creator of everything in
existent. There is no power that God does not have and there is not anything
that God does not have ultimate control over. People do not control God, God
controls people. God hath the power over the lump of clay, God can make a man
to be honorable or dishonorable just by creating it to be so. Look at the
Prophet Jerimiah when God told him, “Before I formed thee in the belly I
knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and
I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 Jeremiah had no
control to do anything but to be whatever God had chosen him to be. God asked
nothing of Jeremiah because long before he was even formed in his mother’s
belly God had already elected his life. Nebuchadnezzar, God made him a king,
took him down, set him in the field to be like and eat like an ox, until God changed
him and took him out. Saul of Tarsus, he did nothing to change from the evil
hearted Jew that he was until Jesus paid him a visit. It is the same will all
the people of the bible and it has been since creation and even today. The Jews
did not choose to be God’s elected nation because God chose them. None of them
people in the New Testament chose to be anything they were, even the Apostles and
the first church membership was chosen and called out by Jesus as He said “come
follow me”, it was not a choice but a command. God said of the first church
and all churches after it, “But now hath God set the members every one of
them in the body, as it hath pleased him.” 1 Corinthians 12:18, not only as
members but by position also. The truth is God has total control over all His creation
even Satan whom He created an evil spirit. It seems when some people see God,
they refuse to see Him as the Sovereign Being that He is and thinks somehow
that God bows to our want’s and wishes. If He did then He would not be God. I
have heard preachers say some pretty silly things but the worst of all it that “God
cannot change your will”, if He could not, then none of us would have ever
been saved. Every time these people say these false things about the Sovereign
God of the universe then they show their ignorance of the True God. Jeremiah
32:17 “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy
great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:”
Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” When
people deny the Sovereignty of God, they deny God, because it is He who does as
He pleases with all of His creation. God is not bound to the same moral standards
as people are because He exist by the very laws He has made. God’s heart does
not bleed with tears like ours because God does not feel, He ordains and
purposes. People must see the True God and not some image that sinful man has
made to fill their unholy thoughts. God is not a man, “God is not a man,
that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he
said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Numbers 23:19
