THE UPPER ROOM DEVOTIONAL 17TH MAY 2025, SATURDAY MESSAGE
Read The Upper Room Devotional 17th May 2025 written by Carol Westerlund (Uusimaa, Finland)
TOPIC: Capable Hands
Today’s Reading
Isaiah 29:13-16
All of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit. – 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NRSVUE)
Today I crocheted a butterfly. I found the instructions on the internet and followed them carefully, hook in hand. However, nearing the end of the instructions, I hesitated. Things didn’t look right at all. Then I read the last line of the instructions, which said to fold the work in half once the crocheting was done. When I did so, I held in my hands a perfectly lovely butterfly!
It can be like that in our Christian walk as well. There is no denying it — sometimes life doesn’t look at all as we think it should. The Lord responds to our “corrections” in Isaiah 29:16, “You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, ‘He did not make me,’ or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’”?
The Lord’s hands are capable. We can trust in his power to bring about transformation that will make our hearts rejoice. After all, the instructions are his and so is the skill.
Today’s Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for the way you made us. We trust in your capable hands. Amen.
Thought for the Day
When I am in doubt, I will trust in the capable hands of my Creator.
Prayer Focus
For commitment to follow God’s instructions
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