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believing that He has everything under control, I enter rest. His
rest was being satisfied. My rest is believing that He is satisfied.

What I would like to do now is take another step. It’s true
that He’s satisfied with everything is has done in creation and
redemption but He’s not finished working. Philippians. 1:6, “For
I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work
in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” 1
Thessalonians 5:24, “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also
will bring it to pass.” He’s still working. He’s not finished. 2
Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in
a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
1 John 3:2, “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not
appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He
appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as
He is.”

There is still a work in process. God is still conforming
us to Jesus. He won’t complete the work. In His mind and in His
purpose it’s already finished. Romans 8:30, “…and whom He
predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He
also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”
Entering rest is not only believing that everything that He has
already done makes Him happy but we must also believe that
everything that He is doing right now in our lives, He is satisfied
with. If I start believing that, the peace of God will flow over on
all sides and at all times.

What I would like to do is to illustrate His present work,
right now and how His present work pleases Him. I want to
illustrate it by His title “The Potter”. Isaiah 64:8, “But now, O
Lord, Thou art our Father. We are the clay, and Thou our potter;
and all of us are the work of Thy hand.” If we can understand
the potter and the clay, it will help us with His present work. The
illustration that I want to give is from Jeremiah 18 which talks
about the prophet going to the potter’s house. “Arise and go
down to the potter’s house, and there I shall announce My words
to you.” Let me give the background of this story.