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Let God Be God

By Joy E. Walker Steward, reprinted with permission

Do you believe that God has a plan for you? If so, you would do well to accept the advice of Joy Steward and "Let God Be God." From this perspective it doesn't help to question the challenges you've been given. Accept them as opportunities to be molded by the "Potter." If you read Joy's story, you will see that she does, indeed, live her faith by accepting that whatever has happened to her has been for a good reason.

What is your perspective on why things happen to you? Do you believe there is a purpose to your life? What has brought you to that conclusion?

Let God Be God

If God were foolish and fickle enough

To be easily manipulated,

Any attempt to depend on Him

Would be utterly frustrated;

If He were wishy-washy enough

To give us what'er we requested,

How could His Promise to keep us from harm

Or His Wisdom and Guidance be trusted?

Were He to hold grudges as some of us do,

Unwilling to pardon offenders,

Not one of us ever would taste of His Love

For we all fall short of His standards;

If God did not have our best interest in mind,

He wouldn't send trials to improve us;

He'd let us escape all the testings of life,

Then on a shelf, useless, would leave us;

The Potter knows best how to handle the clay,

How to break it and bend it and knead it,

How best to remove imperfections He sees

Before scuplting a vessel of beauty;

So let God be God—The Creator All-Wise,

Omnipotent, Trustworthy, Loving!

Let us kneel before Him to worship in awe

And reverence The One Who is Sovereign!

© Copyright 1997, Joy E. Walker Steward