Stay On The Wheel

written on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 3:38 a.m.

Stay on the Wheel…The Potter’s wheel. We don’t want a microwave religion. It takes time to be the best. Food in the microwave is a quick fix…a heat up. We don’t cook a raw chicken in any temperature microwave because the raw meat needs a certain environment to kill bacteria and have conditions to get it to where it needs to be for consumption. Spiritually, God does all things well. When God puts his stamp on something, it is Grade A. Even rules to cook microwaveable food tells you the microwave must be capable of reaching a certain temperature in order for food to reach the standard intended. Some foods take a higher temperature than others to cook properly and be fit for consumption or to reach its highest potential. It takes high temperatures to burn off or kill bacteria. Food cooked in an oven takes longer; the temperature must be even. You must follow specific procedures to make the outcome of the food better. You preheat the oven to get it hot enough to kill germs, bacteria, and cook the food thoroughly so it is evenly tender. As a Christian, we want to be even temperatured and evenly cooked. We want all imperfections to be killed. We want to be more and more like Jesus, striving for 100 because 99.5% won’t do. When he that is perfect is come we shall be changed from mortal to immortality. Of course, we know this will be completion. Jesus’ holy spirit completes the work.

Stay in the oven. If we keep opening and closing the oven door letting the heat out, our food will not cook properly. When we get saved, we must stay in the oven. If we keep jumping out of the oven, we won’t be the best God wants us to be. Like when we plant a seed and keep digging it up before the plant grows and before the roots develop. We must follow procedure and wait. Waiting is hard sometimes. We may not see nothing, but know that in the ground the roots are taking hold to be sturdy. Then when the wind blows and the storms come, the tree won’t fall because the roots are firm and the plant is on firm foundation. Christians won’t last in this wicked world without being firmly rooted and grounded in God…the word. We must stay on the wheel and allow the master to mold us, shape us, break us, spin us and put us back together. We may look messy while being molded, but please be patient with me, God is not through with me yet. I shall come forth as pure gold. We sing the song, but if God is not through with us yet and we are to allow Him to shape us, why do we want to jump off the wheel when we don’t see or understand circumstances. God sees. We don’t know what it takes to make us into what God wants us to be. God made us and He knows best. Father knows best. Thank you Jesus for your saving power and plan of salvation that allowed Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. Thank you for choosing me to mold and shape and make me. Lord help me to stay in the oven on high temperature to cook to become the best I can be. I want to be tender with love and a sweet-smelling savor. I want to have the right temperament to draw others to Christ and the right toughness and boldness to withstand the wiles of Satan.

Stay on the wheel and let God do the work. Don’t get impatient and in a hurry and think God is not working fast enough. It takes time to learn of God. It takes time to experience life and things. God’s time is not man’s time. We can’t say it takes a certain amount of time and the same amount of time for each person the same. God knows us and He knows the work He wants each of us to do. And He knows based on our life what it will take to get us to where he wants us to be for the mission He has for our lives. He knows everything for He is our creator. Trust Him to cultivate us. Stop thinking we know. We don’t know nothing but what God allows us to know. Don’t look at others to measure exactly what we should know now. Everyone has their own individual shoeprint and shoe to walk in. We don’t know what life experience someone had to go through to get them to the point they are. No two feet are alike. Walk in your own destiny and allow God to use you, make you, mold you and break you.

Food may take longer to cook in the oven, but when it comes out…when it’s done, you trust that it will be solid and good for consumption. We should be tender to hear God’s word and flexible to do God’s will at all times.