“You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter.”
-ISAIAH 64:8 ESV
I
went to a pottery once and watched the potter form a lump of clay into a
jar. He demonstrated the technique and in his skilled hands the jar
began to take shape. But there was something about it that was not quite
right, something was a little off. I didn’t see anything wrong with it,
but the potter did. So he just crushed the whole thing back into a
shapeless lump like it was no big deal and started again.
Notice
that he did not throw the lump away and say the lump was no good. Nor
did he blame the lump for not turning out correctly. Nor did he get
angry, frustrated, or upset. It
was just easier for him to start over with the lump and work with it
until it was perfect.
Well,
that was encouraging to me! The lump really couldn’t do anything to
help itself get any better, or make itself more worthy. It was just a
lump, yielded to the potter’s hands.
Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip
Brogden
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