A Worker Or A Worshipper?

G od is more interested in the man than the work
he does for God that means in the work of God.
The worker is more important than the work.
Much time and effort will he spend in the training of a
Workman fit for the Master’s use. Jesus appointed His
disciples to first be with him before he sent them out
to preach.( Mark 3:14).
The calling of a man is not centered on the work of
God, but it centers on fellowship with God. I have
come to understand that God do no make any man fit
for his work on the level of talents, in fact, God calls
the unqualified and qualifies them by grace. We can
see the reason why the church is filled with thorns.
Men are eager to perform on the pulpits but with the
gospel that contradicts their own way of life. You can
never build a life in another man when a genuine life
has not been built in you, and it takes time before life
can be built in a man or woman.
Did I say that you should not work for God?
ABSOLUTELY NO!!! I think in working for God, it’s a
matter of Grace on the part of God. However, I do not
think we should ever work for God until we learn to
fellowship with Him.
Anyone who has first been with Christ, who has
enjoyed fellowship with Him can do the work of God
with eternal quality but a worker who does not
fellowship is only putting up wood, hay and stubble till
the time God will set the world on fire. God wants
worshippers before he wants workers.
Perhaps you have been sending the call of God upon
your life for a very long time now, the first thing is
not to rush and erect your ministry just because you
have completed a 2 or 5 year course in theology school,
You should start developing a strong and intimate
fellowship with God until the Holy Spirit gives birth to
Jesus Christ in your life.
To be continued...

Clay in the hand of the portal

My blessed readers, we are considering Clay in the Potter's hand this quarter.
For a better understanding, the topic can be rephrased as "the potter's hand in the clay" which means what the potter wants to accomplish in the clay. We as the clay in the hand of God, the potter, could simply be understood in the lieu of the rephrased topic, as what God is doing with our lives or His workings and dealings in our lives to become what He wants us to be. Just as the efforts of the potter's hand would produce for himself the desired results his heart on the clay, so God's desired result for our lives is achieved by His "own works" in us and not by "Our works or strength".
   "For it is God who Works in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure" Phil 2:13 
   What God does with our lives or His workings in our lives is to produce the faith of the Son in us. This is talking about the fullness of Christ in us - the hope of Glory. "To them God willed to make know what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory" Colossians 1:27. The working of God in us is to become like His Son which has been is purpose and intention from the beginning. How did God create man? He created man in His own image.
God wanted a man like Himself. God said "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...." Gen 1:26. Verse 27 says "so God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them". According to verse 26, the pronoun "our" is plural but in verse 27 "his" is singular. During the convergence of the Godhead, verse 26 says "Let us make man in our own image", therefore according to grammar; verse 27 should say "so God created man in their own image". But amazingly, verse 27 says "so God created man in his own image". How can we juxtapose this?
It is because there are three in Godhead - the Father, Son and the Spirit, yet only has be the image in the Godhead - the Son.
When the  Godhead was designing man's creation, the Bonnet indicates that man would be made in 'our' image (since they are one 'our' image was mentioned); but when the Godhead was actual process of making man, the Bible says that man was made in 'His' image.
'His' denotes the Son - Christ.
    Therefore, God's purpose is to have a group of people who are like His Son. People who will have the faith of the Son.
The making of Man in God's image is the depiction or representation of man as the enigma of God's authority and rule over the Earth. "In his Likeness" can also means to instill in Adam an inner consciousness that his life does not revolve round his earth or consist in the abundant wealth his surrounding may provide but Adam's life revolves around the one who made Him. He reflects the qualities of one Greater than himself whom He was made to look like and must consistently seek to look like. The greater one whom Adam was made to look like is Christ - Rom 5:14.
Jesus revealed that God's work is "... that ye believe on him whom he hath sent" John 6:29. God's effort or work in us is to make us rise to His Fullness through the vicarious death of Christ and His resurrection. The point I am making is this, Christ is what God wants for our lives. He is the work of God for us to mature into God's fullness. God wants us to rest in His work by making "the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know.... what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead... Ephesians 1:18-20.
   Our New - life reality is birthed by Christ's resurrection through the exceeding great power of God exerted in the resurrection of Christ. Even the mystery of our Faith is in the resurrection of Christ. Faith is just like a vapour without the resurrection. Christ ended the enmity between man and God and the friendship between His Church and the World. By His resurrection, we have a new birth into a living hope, and have gained access by faith into God's grace in hope of God's glory. The truth is that, we can be in Gods work by faith in Christ who is the finished work of God.
Nobel readers, having said this, there are spoiling agents that can us "marred" as vessel in God's hand. Spoiling agents such as a fearful heart, unbelieving heart or skepticism over what Christ has done for all who believe. Unbelieving heart has made most Christians link God's response to their performance: i.e, prayer, Bible reading, giving etc. If that's you, learn how to break that link and enter the rest. You are to stop trusting in yourself and put your trust in what Jesus has already done. According to Jeremiah 18:1-4, when a vessel mars in the potter's hand, he re-works it into another vessel. When one allows unbelief, rigidity of heart against God's word, indifferent to faith in God, trusting in one's good works or self-imposed religion, these things make him "mar" in the hand of His maker and thus is re-worked as a vessel of God's wrath prepared unto destruction.
   In conclusion, Christ is the work God is doing in us, He is the work of God in us. Whosoever believes in Jesus has God's work done in him. Then such a person ceases from his own work and relies on God's work continues, that is, God's finished work - Christ.
And the work continues to unveil in such a person till the work has finally be made manifest in the person's life. When you rest in your own efforts or works or law, you remain under curse.
The Sabbath was to remind man of God's rest. It was a shadow in the Old Testament of what Jesus did for is in the New Testament.
God rested because His creation was complete, and there was nothing else He could add to it. Adam and Eve were confident in what God has done, and all they had to do was to receive it. This is our rest also. Trust in the finished work of God - Christ, and you will receive rest into your soul.