God is Working by Pastor Melissa Scott
This is how wonderful God has been to me. I’m so grateful that I can come here today. I feel honored to present this message to you. Not because it’s something new. You’ve heard it many times, most of you. But because I look at this and I see myself on the wheel just like the next person. It’s hard for me to accept that God is working a work on me that I finally have said, “There’s nothing that I can do. I’ve just got to – I trust you. You’re the one being potter. I commit myself to you.” And my failures and my troubles, all of the things that I go through, all of the things I’ve gone through. He uses those to accomplish the process. And I know without a doubt, there are times when I thought, “You know if I could be on this wheel, but I could control the speed or I could control how many people are looking in while I’m being spun out of control.”
Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that how many times have I dropped my guard in the flesh and thought, “My life is spinning out of control”? He’s got it under control. He’s got this whole picture, like He’s got the whole world in His hands. “Well, yeah, that’s great. It’s the world, but it doesn’t apply to me. God could not possibly know how badly my life is bent out of shape.” Oh, yeah? In fact that’s the favorite type of clay that He likes. The type of clay that sits on the shelf that has this, “I’m pretty good already. Thanks.” I think He likes to leave those clay pieces there. He picks up the ones that have some mixed in ingredients, different color, different shape, different size. Some that thought they’d never get the opportunity to be shaped. He looks at those, puts you on that wheel and begins to do His work.