You Cannot Manipulate God. As The Clay Is In The Potter’s Hands, So Are We In God’s Hand. God Is Sovereign

God is Sovereign
You Cannot Manipulate God

“As the clay is in the potter’s hands, so are you in My hand.”
(Jeremiah 18:6)
God reigns so supremely above His creation that we cannot question any of His actions. As Norman Geisler explains, “If it is a power that you can manipulate, it is not God.” Whatever God wants to have happen will happen; His will cannot be thwarted.

Jeremiah reminded God’s people of how completely God is in control. Because of their disobedience, they wanted to escape the judgment of the God they had spurned. God sent Jeremiah to the house of a potter. As the potter worked on a piece of clay, he skillfully shaped it with his hands into a beautiful vessel. But when another pot he…