In the spiritual life consider yourself as a handful of clay in the hands of the Master Potter, Jesus Christ. Let the Lord put you in your life exactly where He wishes you to be so that He can “work on you” 24/7/365. Potters always want to center the clay on the wheel before they begin to work on it. Consider where God is working right now in your life to “center” you in your life. Consider where you are off-center, and turn to the Lord and let Him move you to where He wishes to have you centered. So long as you are not centered it is difficult for the Potter to “work” on you.
Once Jesus, the Potter, has you centered, you are in His hands. Let Him shape you to be the creation He intended long before He “picked you up” to give you life, to give you a unique shape. In the beginning He is going to dig deep before He begins to give you your unique shape in life. Don’t fight Him on this. Trust Jesus the Master Potter to begin to give you a foundational shape on which He will build someone, something, beautiful! Consider how God is Present in your life trying to shape you. How are you resisting His work in your heart and soul? Give yourself to the Lord as your Power! Let Him shape you and your life! Put your faith in Him! Learn to love Him and feel His Presence, His hands on your life at every moment.
The more you give yourself to the Lord, the more you trust Him, the more you will take shape at His hands. You will notice growing comfort in His hands, directing and shaping you. You will learn too that when you fight Him He will slow down until he gets you once again to be malleable and trusting of Him again. Eventually He will shape you into a beautiful and unique shape, a shape that is you and you alone.
Then He will paint you, put some shiny glaze on you so that He can use you to bring joy and love to the Master Potter who created you! But you will have to go through the fire, you will have to experience heat and pain in your life. It is all a part of becoming the creation God wishes you to become.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
Consider this in your prayer today and use the Biblical texts below as your foundational reflections:
From the Bible:
“The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it. 9 And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 10 but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you, from your evil way, and amend your ways and your doings” Jeremiah 18:1-11.
“19 You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use” Romans 9:19-21?
15 Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
16 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay?
Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding” Isaiah 29:15-16?
8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand” Isaiah 64:8.
Comments