HAVE YOUR OWN WAY, LORD

"So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working with clay at the wheel. He was making a pot from clay. But there was something wrong with the pot. So the potter used that clay to make another pot. With his hands he shaped the pot the way he wanted it to be.  “Family of Israel, you know that I can do the same thing with you. You are like the clay in the potter’s hands, and I am the potter.” Jeremiah 18:3-4, 6 (ERV)

During my devotion this morning, the Lord led me to sing the hymn titled "Have thine own way, Lord". This powerful hymn about accepting God's will which was composed in 1907 by Adelaide A. Pollard - a believer who was planning to travel to Africa as a missionary but found herself unable to raise the needed funds to make the journey. Greatly discouraged, she attended a prayer service one evening and as she sat there, she overheard an elderly woman say "It really doesn't matter what you do with us, Lord, just have your own way with our lives." The elderly woman inspired Pollard and she contemplated the story of the potter from Jeremiah 18:3 and, upon her return home that evening, she wrote all the four stanzas below before retiring for the night:

HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after thy will,
while I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Search me and try me, Savior today!
Wash me just now, Lord, wash me just now,
as in thy presence humbly I bow.

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me I pray!
Power, all power, surely is thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
Fill with thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me!

Beloved, are you discouraged today like that missionary? Are things not going the way you would have wanted? Do you think God has abandoned you? May I assure you that God is secretly working on His perfect Will for your life. Because God's plans are better than our plans, you just have to let Him do it in his own way and at His own perfect time. If you surrender everything to Him, I have no doubt that the great potter will soon complete His work on your case and very soon something awesome and glorious will happen that will make you to shout unending Halleluyah to the King of kings.

Have a blessed day and a fruitful week in Jesus name.

Maranatha!

Bro Okanlawon Taiwo

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