(When Your Born In The Fire You Cannot Live In The Smoke)

Chapter 3. (Working Progress)

These last two chapters was for this purpose one to know who you are and for you to be encouraged and also balanced in what you do we all are a working progress and we must allow God to mold and shape us to a perfect vessel he can use.

2 Timothy 1:6-7 KJV

[6] Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. [7] For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Fear Not Gods on your side and he will lead you!

Acts 1:8 KJV

[8] But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Called for a purpose! Made in his image fearfully and wonderfully made one of his marvelous works his kingship his Masterpiece of all his creation.

Can you look at yourself in the mirror and say I am a working progress?

When you build a house or mold a flower pot or you burn all the impurities out of gold it's a working progress. As a child in christian school one of the songs that was sung, He's still working on me to make me what I ought to be.

I am a working progress because I allow him to work in my life. Will you let him work in yours or will you push him off and try to work it yourself?

I seen several do that and I watched their lives get so messed up. And yea it's hard but really not that hard. I find it easy to live for God because Life and work is so hard and sometimes it gets harder yet with God it's life worth living.

Sometimes I get aggravated upset angry with people because they hear you and what your saying but question you or they simply ain't listening to you because they think they know what's best. Like they did to Jeremiah.

I like Jeremiah was in a working progress you see Jeremiah said I will not preach again I'm done it's over they just laugh at me make fun and lie on me and won't listen so I'm not waisting another breath towards them. But God put it on him so hard hot and heavy it was like fire shut up in his bones and you find once again Jeremiah running to them to preach the word once again to a people determined not to listen.

Two things this teaches one Gods Love and Mercy two God will make you miserable till you have to obey him or run away from him and his will for your life then your life will be a total wreck.

God has to work in us all and keep working I find that praying to him and getting a relationship with God is the best thing to do you won't go wrong there.

Jeremiah 18:1-6 KJV

[1] The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, [2] Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. [3] Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. [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. [5] Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [6] O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

We got to let God keep molding us and making us no it don't feel good to be put on or back on the potters wheel and be molded to Gods perfection in our lives free of muck and mar and sin. Sometimes he puts us in the fire and we are tried by the fire and know it don't feel good when the impurities are burned out of our lives but we must be remade to Gods perfection and we must be tried by the fire to be as pure as fine gold!

We are a working progress.

That's when we can show compassion and A Goy Love for one another and sinners that are not in church to win them and reach souls and help them reach Heaven we all are a working progress!