Layman's Lounge

The Miry Clay

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings. Psa. 40:2

But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. Isa 64:8

Friends, we need to remember something in the passage above. It's easy to think that we were brought out of sticky, thick and cloudy circumstances and set upon a solid place where we can rejoice in the God of our deliverence, but we want to remind you of something deeper. YOU were the miry clay that God delivered you from! Not only are we the clay molded by the potter, but we are in the body of sin that God died to redeem us from. We will all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Corruptible must (MUST) put on incorruptible. Why? Because this fleshly body is the holder and container of sin, having been conceived in sin. Our spirits are raised out of our clay, out of our sin by virtue of his SPIRITUAL redemption. It is that we now walk in NEWNESS of life and after the Spirit. Pursuit of the spiritual (weightier) matters of the law is where we find the ROCK. The rock of redemption, the rock of reconciliation, the rock of revelation!

Jesus promised to build his church upon a ROCK. Once you begin to realize that YOU are the miry clay, that you have been pulled out of yourself and unto a new place/plane in God, you will begin to walk with more purpose, more understanding, and more power! You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come UPON you....covering your clay with the heat of redemption, the fire of purification that hardens the clay of your mind and allows you to walk upright on the ROCK OF HIS WILL.

Be encouraged this week that he brought you out of the miry clay and set your feet upon the rock to stay! That rock is ChRIST, that clay is you, and you are now not what you were, but yet not fully what you will be! The revelation of yourself as the muddy/cloudy and gripping clay will help you to fight the good fight of FAITH and turn from everything that the clay wants to drag you into! Resist the devil and he shall flee, and walk not after the flesh but after the SPIRIT and you will STAY ON THE ROCK!

In Love,

Elder Mark and Sister Dana