What is God doing in your life? The question is asked today, not to make you question God, but to make you recognize God. Someone said, “It is alright to ask God questions, but it is not alright to question God.” Most people think they know what the Devil is doing, but few recognize what the Lord is doing. In Mark chapter 7 and verse 37, we find the words, “He hath done all things well.” Job 9:12 states, “…who will say unto him, What doest thou?” Ecclesiastes 8:4, “…who may say unto him, What doest thou?” Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” But listen to the rebellious heart. Ezekiel 12:9, “…the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?” It’s pretty bold to say to God, “What doest thou?” Genesis 18:25, “…shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” There is no unrighteousness in God…no inequity.

What is God doing in your life? As Christians, we know what He has done. He has forgiven us and given us a home in Heaven because we have received Jesus as our Savior. But what is doing now in our lives?

Is he chastening us to produce peaceable fruit? Hebrews 12:5-11. Is He purging us to produce purity of heart? Job 23:10. Is He blessing us with His goodness to produce repentance? Romans 2:4. Is He humbling us that we may be a blessing to others? Galatians 6:1.

Jeremiah 18:4, “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.” Romans 9:20-21, “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus” “Hath not the potter power over the clay.”

II Timothy 2:21, “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”

Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote, “I have been reading the great passages in Isaiah and Jeremiah that have to do with the Potter’s visit to the house of a potter, and the illustrations that grew out of that craft. Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:3-6. One day I asked a

Potter what determined his choice as to what he should make. I saw him make tableware, then kitchenware, even spittoons. He said he got the feel of it as he began to work. When he was rested he made beautiful things; when he was tired, he would slap the clay on the wheel and turn out ordinary vessels that sold in the market for menial uses. I asked him to make a menial vessel, and he tossed one off in a moment. I then asked him to make me a vase, and with great care and love he made a vessel of beauty. He began again and speedily there arose before my eyes a vase. While the clay was still wet and whirling, he struck it from above with a heavy sweep of his hand and crushed it to a lump and speedily ran up the form of another vessel. Moment after moment I watched various forms succeed each other, all according to his desire, and all from the same lump of clay. A deft touch and a bowl appeared – a plate, a cup, a dish. He was absolute master of his clay.”

WHAT IS GOD DOING IN YOUR LIFE?

To the Potter’s house I went down one day,
And watched Him while moulding the vessels of clay,
And many a wonderful lesson I drew,
As I noted the process the clay went thro’

Trampled and broken, downtrodden and rolled,
To render more plastic and fit for the mould,
How like the clay that is human, I thought,
When in Heavenly hands to perfection brought,

For self must be cast as the dust at His feet,
Before it is ready for service made meet.
And pride must be broken, and self-will lost –
All laid on the altar, whatever the cost;

But lo! By and by, a delicate vase
Of wonderful beauty and exquisite grace.
Was it once the vile clay? Ah, yes; yet how strange,
The Potter has wrought so marvelous a change!