Romans 8:29 declared the Lord’s goal. The question: Is it yours as well? It says, “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son…” Our Potter is always at work. He uses the pressure of our trials to center us on Him. 

We are vessels of earthen clay. 2 Corinthians 4:7 says, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” What is our part?

Romans 6:13 says, “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

Verse 18 says, “And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.” Verse 2 says, “…How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” Verse 11 is the answer. It says, “…reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin…” We keep our thoughts centered on  Him, through the constant awareness that we are dead to sin.