{"id":54,"date":"2016-02-16T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-03-17T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T22:22:50","slug":"he-has-molded-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/16\/he-has-molded-us\/","title":{"rendered":"He Has Molded Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then God said, \u201cLet us make man in our image, after our likeness\u201d \u00a0We are created beings for a single purpose; to honor and glorify God.\u00a0 He has given each of us talents to be used for this purpose but I find in my own life I like to claim some of these talents as my own.\u00a0 At the end of the day who gave me the ability to learn, understand, and execute these skills.\u00a0 If I see myself as the lump of clay being molded by God would I look at these skills differently?\u00a0 Would I be more thankful?\u00a0 Would I seek to hear His quiet still voice directing me to actions that bring Him honor and glory?\u00a0 Would people be able to see the love of God? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God forgive me for wanted to take any credit for that which you clearly have molded into who and what I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah 64:8<\/span><\/p>\n

But now, O Lord, you are our Father;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0we are the clay, and you are our potter;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0we are all the work of your hand<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

45:9<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWoe to him who strives with him who formed him<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

29:15<\/span><\/p>\n

You turn things upside down!<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,<\/span><\/p>\n

that the thing made should say of its maker,<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not make me\u201d;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

or the thing formed say of him who formed it,<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has no understanding<\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Romans 9:19<\/span><\/p>\n

For who can resist his will?\u201d But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?<\/b> Will what is molded say to its molder, \u201cWhy have you made me like this?\u201d Has the potter no right over the clay<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then God said, \u201cLet us make man in our image, after our likeness\u201d \u00a0We are created beings for a single purpose; to honor and glorify God.\u00a0 He has given each of us talents to be used for this purpose but I find in my own life I like to claim some of these talents as … Continue reading “He Has Molded Us”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-in-his-image"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}