We are the Clay Pots

If I had been god I would have smashed all those clay fists that were shaking at me for making them.

Our God is so merciful and loving He gave those clay pots another chance to believe Him and trust in Him.

No one could have done what Christ did when He died on that cross for the sins of others and then offered salvation that was free and easy by merely trusting in Him.

In fact it is so easy it is hard for people to believe because they think something worthwhile has to be difficult and earned.

It is human nature to want to strive for something and then be proud we accomplished it. God did away with that pride by giving it freely, we don't want to let go of our pride, we want to believe we did something that we can boast about.

Ephesians 2:8–10. “For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

The only way to expunge that devilish pride from our heart is to ask God to remove it for us. We cannot get rid of it ourselves, if we could we would be proud of ourselves for getting rid of the pride.

Proverbs 16:17-19

…17 The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life. 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 19 It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud."

The more prideful we are the harder we will eventually fall. No one gets away with pride forever, eventually there will be a recompense worse than anything that would occur from repenting and confessing it to be cleansed by Christ.

1 Peter 5:5

"Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:6

"But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Luke 14:11

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Obadiah 1:3-4

"The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ / Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD."

There is nothing good down that prideful road full of frivolity and self-exaltation, only misery wretchedness, and anguish, if not at the present certainly in the future.

The narrow road that leads to heaven will be hard but full of joy and peace with intense expectations for eternity with Christ.

Hallelujah!