The Potter Knows what He's doing

Children, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Nathan: I want to be a pilot.

Ayo: I want to be a teacher.

Brayden: plumber or electrician
Charlie: farmer

Ngozi: nurse or doctor.

Seyi: fashion designer, artist or chef….

This question resonates with me and likewise you the reader of this blog. Career choice is one of the major decisions we have to make in life. It's easy to decide what to have for supper but major decisions are not easy to make. Often times, one need to do research, see a counselor among others in order to make good decisions pertaining to certain aspects of our lives. Growing up, I had 2 professions in mind.

I wanted to be a nurse or a professor in the university.
I started off with nursing. After I graduated from the School of Midwifery in 1997, I changed my mind. I wanted to be a nutritionist instead. When I saw how nurses are being treated by the people they care for and other health care providers, I said to myself "you need to do something else, you are not appreciated in this profession." I was frustrated! I like helping people but I detest ill treatment, abuse and the likes. In my state of confusion, I decided to reroute my career path.
I saved up to pursue human nutrition, I had plans to relocate to Lagos. Alas, all my efforts at changing my career were unsuccessful. Nothing worked out! The money disappeared; I searched everywhere in my room, I didn't find it. There was no one to turn to. That's how I couldn't write the admission exam that year. To make matters worse, my relocation to Lagos did not work out either. My back was against the wall! Every step I took to change my career was abortive. I was engaged to my fiance then (now my husband). He prayed with me and opened my eyes to see that the Potter molded me for nursing. Guess what! 23 years later I'm still in the nursing profession. I'm an enterostomal therapist educator. Although I didn't turn out to be a professor in the university, yet I teach my patients, their families, university students and other health care providers. 

I don't know if you're as confused as I was in my early adult years, perhaps you're broken - I have a good news for you. The Potter wants to put you back together again!

Who is the Potter?

God is the Potter. He knew you before He formed you in your mother's womb.
I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart…

Jeremiah 1:5 NLT

Your Creator sets you apart for a purpose. He knows what He's doing! Are you having difficulties finding the purpose for which you're made? Ask God! Pray that He reveal His plans for your life. Take a closer look at your life, search deeply. What do you do with ease? What is that thing that gives you Joy? What are you good at? Seek godly counsel!

Allow the Potter to make and mold you into what He wants you to be. He has not and He will not give up on you.

The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.

Jeremiah 18:1‭-‬6 NLT

The Potter wants to put you back together again!

How can I have a relationship with the Potter?

1.Confess your sins to God. Romans 3:10, 23; 5:12

2.Ask that the blood of Jesus cleanse you from all your sins. Hebrew 9:22, 1John 1:7-9.

3.Ask Jesus to come and reign in your life.

4.Forgive yourself and move on.  

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]."

2 Corinthians 5:17 AMP

5.Read your Bible and pray everyday.

6.Pray that God will lead you to a Bible believing church and fellowship with them.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, I come to you today; save me and I shall be saved. Heal me and I shall be healed. Forgive me of all my sins. Have mercy on me. Come and be the Lord over my spirit, soul and body. Help me not to go back to my old way of life - give me a new beginning. Make me and mold me to your taste; I'm yours Lord! In Jesus name I pray. Amen

Important Information

Giving your life to Jesus does not mean you will not experience challenges in life. Infact, you may be persecuted because of your faith in Jesus. You may experience pain, temptations, trials, disasters, loss and so on. In the event that any of these things happen to you, know assuredly that He is with you. The difference between you and an unbeliever is  God's promises - His presence and the ultimate reward which is eternity with Him in heaven.

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you."

Isaiah 43:2 AMP

"Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts and encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

2 Corinthians 1:3‭-‬4 AMP

If you continue to be in good standing with God; when you die, you will go to heaven.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven."

Matthew 7:21 AMP

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