Are We Willing . . . to be molded?
“But now, LORD, You are our Father;
(Isaiah 64: 8 NASB)
We are the clay, and You our potter,
And all of us are the work
of Your hand.”
Most people like who they have become as they have grown up into adulthood; they enjoy who they are, where their place is in the world, and what they can offer to this world.
- BUT—What If God Wants Us To Do More?
- BUT—What If God Has Created Us For An Even Greater Purpose?
- BUT—What if God Knows We Have Allowed Ourselves To Become Stuck In the Comfortable?
Are We Willing . . . to be molded by our FATHER?
Are We—Really?
Now, I am not an artistic person who can paint with a brush or create artful pieces out of materials, but I am a person who can appreciate a painting or a piece of art created. The truth is that most of us can appreciate beautiful art when we encounter it. So, with that thought in mind, I wonder if we can see the wonder of what God has created as we stand and look into our mirror?
To be honest, most of us see our flaws, not our beauty.
To be true, most of us notice what needs to change rather than what should remain.
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To be biblical, the molding, changing, and creating belongs solely to our FATHER the POTTER (and not to us—the clay).
- Is God molding you?
- Is God molding me?
- Are we being trimmed?
If we have ever experienced time within a potter’s shed, then we have seen the focal point: the Potter’s Wheel. Round and Round, the lump of clay is turned, and unless the clay is touched by the Potter, then the clay remains just as it is—a lump of clay. However, once the Potter’s hands touch the clay, and when the water is applied, then immediately, the lump begins to become a beautiful, useful vessel.
Now consider the vessel. Can the vessel be molded into something even more useful even after the Potter has fashioned the vessel the first time?
The answer—YES, MOST ASSUREDLY, THE VESSEL CAN BE RESHAPED, REMOLDED, & REMADE!
The “clay” has no say!
The Potter has ALL the say!
The Potter is totally, 100% in charge because (for one reason) it is HIS SHED & HIS CLAY!
The clay merely exists.
The clay merely exists to become useful to the POTTER!
The Potter is the artistic one, the CREATOR!
The Potter is the master CRAFTSMAN!
We do not need to know all the details of how everything in our lives will work out BEFORE we say, “YES.”
We just need to say, “YES, LORD” up front, knowing that if our FATHER, our LORD has invited us to do it, to become it, to be fashioned into something new—THEN HE WILL EMPOWER US FROM WITHIN THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT!
The Apostle Paul (a totally changed man!) was given these words to send to the believers living in Corinth.
May we read God’s Word together and allow ourselves to be molded (as we read, as we walk throughout this day, as we live within God’s will, as we become more & more & more like Jesus!).
“Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.
(1 Corinthians 2: 12-16 NASB)
[Thank You God for Your Helper, for Your Holy Spirit.]
We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one.
For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM?
But we have the mind of Christ.”
Are We Willing . . . to be molded by our FATHER?
“The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
(Jeremiah 18: 1-4 NASB)
“Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will announce My words to you.”
So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.
But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.”
- May we arise & go down upon our knees so we can listen.
- May we arise & go down to the Potter’s house so we can see what He is making of us.
- May we arise & go down to the Potter’s shed so we can see the vessel He is making upon His Potter’s wheel.
- May we arise & really see what the Potter is making of the clay.
- May we not grumble or complain when the Potter sees the way the clay has become spoiled, as He adds the Living water & fashions the clay into something anew.
- May we be pliable, willing, obedient to the Potter’s will for our lives.
- May we be willing to be remade.
- May we be pleasing to Our FATHER, the POTTER, the OWNER & the CREATOR of the clay!