Romans 9:19-21

Rachel Workman: ¹⁹ One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” ²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^{[h] 21} Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Exactly. Who am I to question what God has already decided.

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John Burnett:  ¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” ²⁰ On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? ²¹ Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel ^[a]for honorable use and another ^[b]for common use?  The world has bought into the lie and there are preachers preaching that we are little gods because we are made in the image of God.  Our feeble minds cannot fathom how powerful and awesome our God is so people imagine him to be smaller than he is and themselves more powerful than we are.  Only when we put our trust in Him do we have any power and that is power over sin through the help of the Holy Spirit.

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Tomorrow’s reading for Romans 9:22-25

²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? ²³ What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”^[i]