Master Potter - Made In His Image
The being of God's essence is
always present. Salvation brings the restoration of a divine connection and
perfect alignment between God and man. We must be totally preoccupied with our
love and adoration of God for who He is, not for the things He does. God is the
self-existent Creator in whom all things come into existence for His pleasure,
in Him they continue living and have their being. To know Him is to be possessed
with a hunger and thirst for more God consciousness, to cry out, "Give me
all of Thee; for there is nothing more, there is nothing else, but You, oh
God!"
Jesus is our only hope of
perfection through faithfully practicing spiritual receptiveness. Without the
love of Jesus, our hearts are barren clay vessels, cracked and full of want.
When total surrender comes the Master Potter lovingly removes the marred
surface of our disfigured lives and fills in the cracked places where we have
suffered great loss. He molds and remakes us into His image perfectly shaping
the clay into a beautiful vessel of honor.
The Holy Spirit dwells within the
heart of man conforming us into His image. He is closer than our concealed
thoughts, our soul or the breath that we breathe. When we repent of our fascination with the
visible, tangible things of this world our eyes will be opened to see God's
invisible beauty from a higher vantage point.
A great calamity of our time is
when we have deaf ears that are closed to the still small voice of the Holy
Spirit. This grieves the Holy Spirit and those whose hearts cry out for the
living God to make His presence known. Many in the Church and in the world at
large need a personal, tangible encounter with a living God. The Church must
reacquaint themselves with the spiritual wisdom and true knowledge of God. Our
blinded eyes cannot know God by external earthly pursuits that are confined to
the soulish realm of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is the Holy Spirit who
reveals Jesus the Living Word, the Tree of Life, and the deep and hidden things
which are freely given to us of God.
The Glory and Presence of God
Ezekiel gazed into an open
heaven. There he beheld the invisible. He saw visions of what appeared to be
the enormity of God appearing in the likeness of man. God was seated on a
sapphire stone throne obscured by an amber cloud of glory with a blazing fire
that enfolded itself. Ezekiel struggled with the correct verbiage to describe
the magnitude of what he saw as the appearance of the likeness of the glory of
the Lord.
When Ezekiel saw the glory, he
fell upon his face. Then he heard a voice of one that spoke. Ezekiel suggested
that the heavenly creatures around the throne resembled things he had seen on
earth trying to bring intelligibility in a natural likeness.
"As
for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face
of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left
side; they four also had the face of an eagle... As for the likeness of the living
creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire..." Ezekiel
1:10, 13 KJV
When God took Ezekiel to the
Valley of Dry Bones He asked Ezekiel, "Can these bones live?" Ezekiel
did not presume to know anything in the presence of an All-Knowing God. He
humbly responded, "O Lord God, You alone know!" (see Ezekiel 3).
Ezekiel's heart was open and surrendered to discovering the mystery presented
by God. Arrogant speech is a luxury none can afford in the presence of the
Mighty. When confronted by the delight of God's presence the prophetic seer waited
in silence to hear what the Lord would whisper.
We will be filled to the measure
that we hunger and desire to know God in His fullness. Holy Spirit covers us with His grace, so we
become presentable inside and out. His forgiveness cleanses and purifies our
inner life allowing us to draw nearer to cultivate the presence of God in
confidence. There we receive mercy, wisdom and find grace in our time of need.
Decide to always place the Lord's face before your eyes and with skilled
determination forever keep Him the focus of your heart.
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