July 17, 2025 -The Intent of The Creator

ISAIAH 24:1-27:13

ISAIAH 29:1-24

Chronological Bible Readings

Isaiah 25:1 Lord, you are my God;

    I will exalt you and praise your name,

for in perfect faithfulness

    you have done wonderful things,

    things planned long ago.

The knowledge that everything that is happening was planned for long ago is my greatest source of contentment. In my struggles, failures, successes and other joys it's all in God's hands. He has already known about it and has planned long ago what to do with it. He has already done all kinds of wonderful things to do even without my cooperation in His perfect faithfulness it will work out His plan. Our great sovereign God will never leave us or forsake us, and He has already worked it all out for my good and His glory.

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who go to great depths

    to hide their plans from the Lord,

who do their work in darkness and think,

    “Who sees us? Who will know?”

16 You turn things upside down,

    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!

Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,

    “You did not make me”?

Can the pot say to the potter,

    “You know nothing”?

What depths we go to trying to hide our plans from the Lord.

There is nothing that we can do that God can't see. The potter and the clay analogy is wonderful to understand this idea. The creator of all things even me knows me because He designed me. If a potter makes a cup to hold water in but the cup cracks on the bottom so that water will leak out because the cup doesn't want to be a cup won't the potter know and do whatever he needs to in order for the cup to function as it is intended. Also, the intent of the potter doesn't change just because someone misuses the vessel He created.

Traveling for vacation this week we were playing a car game and without going into a long explanation I had reason to say to Dave regarding the H on the back of a Honda vehicle, "You can't change the intent of the creator in order to meet your own self-interest or ideas." (I needed an "H" and he didn't want me to get the "H"). This led to a further discussion of how that is exactly what the world does on a daily basis about so many things with specific conversation about the LGBTQ......XYZ community. Claiming something to be true does not change the original intent of the creator. If the potter creates a cup, it doesn't become a bowl just because you eat cereal out of it. And if you do it in secret with the lights off the Lord God still sees and still knows. And He already knew you were going to do it. There is so much more freedom, peace, and contentment in functioning within the intent of the creator trusting His plan of wonderful deeds for long ago.