January 4th - Crushed and Reformed

"And now I am committing you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to edify and give the enjoyment of an allotment among all who have been hallowed." "(Acts 20:32) 

Humanity is a work in progress.  Originally formed by God to be marred by sin and then crushed and remolded into the very Image of God. God determined it was necessary to reveal His mercy so I am not going to “protest”...

"That which is molded will not protest to the molder, Why do you make me thus?...now if God, wanting to display His indignation and to make His powerful doings known, carries, with much patience, the vessels of indignation, adapted for destruction, it is that He should also be making known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy...us, whom He calls also, not only out of the Jews, but out of the nations also...For God locks up all together in stubbornness, that He should be merciful to all" (Romans 9:22-24; 11:32)

So relax, we all have been committed "to God and the word of His grace." He has chosen the  human race to reveal His mercy and grace. That is His will so nothing you do, or do not do, will change that. 

"...He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved..being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will." (Ephesians 1:4-11)

God is in total control of our destiny. It is a good work and will be perfected.

“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.” (Philippians 1:6)