Isaiah 64:8 KJV But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.


Romans 9:21 KJV Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

There are many lessons that can be taught and learned from the above verses, not least the Sovereignty of the Almighty God our creator. From them we could go into many different doctrines that are taught from God's word. I could write about the doctrine of Election and just how does God choose those who will become children of God? (Wait you say, I thought all of mankind were children of God!) Yes I do believe each of us was formed in our mother's womb just as the Bible says we were. But God in His great wisdom knew we must all have "FREE WILL". Without free will we would be nothing but slaves or robots with no option but to do our master's will. Without free will how could we ever choose to love our creator? Or choose to reject Him? To become a child of the living God and live with Him in eternity we must by our own volition choose to believe in Him. To be made in His likeness is to have the power to make a choice just as the angels were given the power of choice even though a third of them chose to believe Lucifer's lies that they could attain godhood. That by the way is a lie that is still taught today to millions of deceived lost souls. Souls who choose to believe the lie and despise the truth. Those who choose to not search the scriptures. But God has an answer for them also.

Romans 1:20 KJV For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Romans 8:16 KJV the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

These are very difficult things for the Christian to understand! How can man refuse to accept God if the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we were created by God? If everything God made sees and understands His eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse how can they deny Him?


If we could ask the angels, who rebelled, who were created by God and lived with Him in heaven -- why? I believe they would answer because they believed Lucifer when he told them they could attain godhood. They of their own volition chose to be gods instead of just angels. You see they also were given "free will" and chose to rebel just as man who rejects God has chosen by his own volition to reject God. The Holy Spirit is given only to those who choose to believe in God. As a Christian if you ask how can anyone not see that the universe and the world had a creator --- understand that God loved His creation enough to give it free will even at the cost of losing some of them. He made Himself seen in all of creation in such a way that only those who, like a third of the angels, refused to submit to a sovereign God. Without "free will" what would any of us be? --- Certainly not made in the image of the eternal God. Certainly not given the opportunity to become sons and daughters of God. But with "free will" we have the right to choose good or evil, the right to decide if we want to spend eternity with our creator or decide to spend it without Him. We have the right to choose to believe Satan's lies or the truth God has presented to us in His word.

But how does this line up with the doctrine of "Predestination?" If mankind has "free will" how can we have predestinated lives? The Bible tells us that God is omnipresent and is not restricted to time as we know it but lives in all of time. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. It is He who was, who is and who will be forever and since He lives in all time as evidenced by His ability to make over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming of the Christ and then seeing to the fulfillment of each and every prophecy, only God can write history before it happens!


Let's just imagine for a moment that at some point in your life you learned about God and about Jesus being crucified, then raised from the dead, to pay the penalty for your sins and you chose to believe in Him. At that moment you were given the gift of the Holy Spirit. God being omnipresent and all-knowing knew when you would choose Him or reject Him. If your decision was to choose Him He could then predestine your life.

Romans 8:27-30 KJV ²⁷and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

God made us to become His children, to love us and have us love Him. If you have been chosen to know Him - REJOICE -- let His love for you grow and surround you with the knowledge that He has promised to never leave or forsake you.

Romans 8: 38-39 KJV for I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



Rest in the knowledge that God lovingly made you exactly as you are and has given you the Holy Spirit to mold and shape you into the likeness of Jesus so that you can share eternity with Him.

Bob Goulding © May 2007

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