“Out of the miry clay He sent my feet upon a rock and NOW I know!”

Passage: Hebrews 10:19-39 Wow did I ever feel like muddy clay last week! Too muddy to even work with!  I felt so at war within myself and troubled.  There where some things I needed to learn about myself last week and it was tough and yuk.  But thankfully the chapter this week is molding me in new ways, I finally feel ready to work with.  When I met a potter a while ago she said the clay has to be ready to be worked with.  Sometimes it can be to wet and muddy to work with and other times it can be too dry to work with.  Last week I was mud.

Hebrews 10, such a refreshing chapter for me.  I learned over the years that I tend to think ‘worst case scenario’ and I always go over all the ‘what ifs’ in my mind.  It’s like I am living in fear expecting judgement or something.  Well for me this chapter has pulled me out of the mud and I feel like a much more confident person that God can work with! I am so thankful for this daily discipline of reading my Bible that I have prioritized.  I have had so much revealed to me by the grace of God through the scriptures.

This is the verse that did it for me this week:

35 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. ~ Hebrews 10

I have been throwing away confident trust in God for years now and all because of fear!  I have been fearing God as though I am living in sin. Yes I sin, of course I am not perfect but I am not living in sin.  I have been forgiven and I am living a life for God not for Satan.  So why all the fears?

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. ~ Hebrews 10

These verses  me made me realize that this is how I was thinking about myself in regards to fear.  But it doesn’t even apply to me!  I have been forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ ever since I accepted Him as my own and personal Savior at 9 years old. I should have the boldness and confidence it talks about in verses 19-22.

19 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20 By his death,Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. 21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, 22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.~ Hebrews 10

Wow this us HUGE for me.  I was living in fear that I shouldn’t even have.  I have nothing to fear because I’m saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. Sometimes I’ve felt like God was withholding good in my life.  I know that’s a lie from Satan but on my ‘low’ days when God’s plan seems too hard, getting  that lie out of my heart is not always easy.  But now I know why, I have not fully entered into the true meaning of grace and trust.

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

Hopefully you have been encouraged and motivated to live with more trust in God and less in fear.  Fear is not of God  and it can really hinder God from allowing us to be worked with.  Fear leaves us in the mud and unmanageable to the Potter.

My prayer today was, “God help me to trust You and understand your grace with a sincere heart. Help me to fully trust You with confidence knowing that You have opened the way for me through the death of Your Son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for my sins. Help me to hold tightly without wavering to the hope that You God can be trusted to keep Your promises and are not withholding anything good from my life.  Help me to know that the plans You have for me are not to harm me but to prosper me even in the mud. Amen”

in the clay,

Chantal Dube

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