Discipleship Episode 6, Transformative Gospel
9 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Isaiah 45:9 English Standard Version In the Army, we lived by checklists and Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs). We had a checklist for everything. Very little was left to “chance.” In fact, we had a checklist to guide the progression of our careers. That checklist contained all the milestones for a successful career; when you should go to certain schools, when you should have certain jobs, when you should expect to move to another duty station, and of course what you should not do. If you followed the rules, good things usually happened to you. Of course, there were inevitable bumps and potholes along the way that we had to navigate. For example, I was supposed to attend a certain school; however, an invasion of Iraq thre...