GOD: MAKER NOT WASTER

Behold, I WILL MAKE You into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and make the hills like chaff – Isaiah 41: 15

As this month of Divine Transformation winds up, let’s shift attention from circumstantial changes to the core changes within. All through the Bible, God offers to MAKE every individual who responds to Him into something valuable and tangible; something that he or she could never have otherwise become. God MAKES. He never WASTES. He is a MAKER; never a WASTER. Whenever God reaches out to a person, it is never because He wants to waste that life. The scriptures consistently confirm that not a single one of those who heard and correctly responded to God’s call ever ended devalued or wasted, that is, less that they would have been, left to themselves.

Isaiah 41 illustrates the active and repeated use of the personal pronoun by God Himself: “I will…I will help you…I will make you…I will open rivers…I will plant….” This displays a definite commitment about what God wants to do in the lives of each of His children. God is resolutely committed to make you into something beyond yourself. He will make something good and great out of your life. He will make you a holy, worthy, and useful vessel. God can make something out of nothing. When He says, “I will make you,’ it means that whatever it takes, whatever it will cost and whatever that is needed to make you is already available. Every resource required for your transformation, God is ready to engage.

God is committed to producing out of your life, what pleases Him – a vessel of honour to His Glory. Becoming a nonentity can never be God’s plan for your life. God will make you far beyond what you or any other person can ever make you. God will turn a spineless worm into a strong and solid weapon – a new, sharp threshing instrument that will thresh challenging mountains and beat hindering hill into chaff. He turns weak sheep into strong soldiers and carnal dwarfs into spiritual giants. God will make a miracle out of your messy existence. What God will make you cannot be compared with who you presently are. If you cooperate with God, He will make out of your life a flawless miracle that will baffle your generation.