Names of God: Jehovah-hoseenu

The name of God that we will be looking at today is Jehovah-hossenu, the LORD our Maker. We read this name of God all through the Scriptures… it’s one of my favorite. This name is different from Elohim, that shows us God as Creator. Elohim shows us how God creates out of nothing… but Jehovah-hoseenu shows us how God takes something and He molds it and shapes it.

Our God is Elohim and He is Jehovah-hoseenu.

O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. 
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 
For the LORD is a great God
And a great King above all gods, 
In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also. 
The sea is His, for it was He who made it,
And His hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. 
For He is our God…

Psalm 95:1-7

As we have studied these names we have often looked at God’s relationship with Israel. We have to remember that when God called Israel out of Egypt, He sent them to the wilderness so that He could Egypt out of them.

But there were many who rejected His molding hands… and they quarreled against Him. Sometimes molding and shaping is not a pleasurable experience.

 “Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker—
An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth!
Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’

Isaiah 45:9

But now, O LORD, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.

Isaiah 64:8

Life is so much better when we just submit to the potter’s hand instead of fighting against it. You know when God called us out of the world and into Christ… He still has to get the world out of us. We are new fresh cut of clay in Christ, ready to be molded and shaped.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature;

the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

2 Corinthians 5:17

We are the work of His hands. He takes us as we are and then He begins to do His wonders in our hearts and in our minds and in our souls. He begins preparing us for what He has in store for us. He has a work for us to do. He called us for a purpose and He is going to get us ready for it.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,

which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10

However, whatever good works He has for us…

I believe His number one intent is to conform us into the image of His Son.

For those whom He foreknew, 

He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son,

so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

Romans 8:29

It doesn’t matter what shape we are in when we come to Him… He is Jehovah-hoseenu. He is the Master Potter, the LORD our Maker, and He is more than capable to conform us and mold us and shape us into His own possession… He is able to make us worthy of our calling. He will accomplish His work in us, and because He will, we will accomplish our work in Him.

who will transform the body of our humble state

into conformity with the body of His glory,

by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

Philippians 3:21

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