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What I would like to do now is take another step. It’s true that
He’s satisfied with everything that He 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.