The Potter and the Clay

 Are You Workable Clay? 

 You are a precious creation of the Transcendent, the Almighty God.  His gift to you is found in your uniqueness and giftedness.  He has a plan to use you in his Kingdom just as you are.  The problem is that you reject his work in you and attempt to fix yourselves by creating elaborate masks that alter yourselves to match whatever flaws you perceive.  In this effort you pile layer and layer of deception on top of your authentic, created self.  In the process you bury the original you and live life in a pretense.  It is a tragic trade that leads to a dishonest life that is exhausting and illusionary.  You are not who you create yourself to be.  It is your creation.  Your authentic true self is simply buried between layers of your imagination and creation.  There is no substance or reality to those masks.  The fact that you trade your unique, beautiful, creative self for an illusion is beyond any reason.  Your creator, designer and the transcendent God of the universe made you to perfectly match the life and tasks that he designed in advance for you to do.  He built you from the ground up for a specific purpose and function.  You cannot improve on His design acting out of fear or in an effort to meet the expectations of others.  It the greatest loss of all to make this choice.  To reject your God given self on the Altar of Insecurity and Fear is a tragic transaction.  (Jer. 18:2-6,19:19,1,11/Rom. 9:21/Isaiah 29:16/Psalm 119:14)

 Submission

Jeremiah, Isaiah and Paul speak of the creation, or the clay speaking back to the potter and challenging their design.  Paul concludes his discussion with this comment, “Does not the potter have power over the clay…”   (Rom. 9:21 NKJV)  Paul reminds you that whatever you may dislike about yourself was decided by a sovereign God.  It is not a part of your role to decide if you are right or left handed.  It is not your decision whether you are a creative or an more intellectual.  Both are needed.  Paul points out that your role is to submit and not to rule.  The reality is that you are not in charge.  Like any human organization there is an appointed individual that is in charge and it is not you.  Each of the passages points out the insolence of challenging your maker.  God pronounces, “Woe to him who strives with his Maker!” (Isaiah 45:9).  Isaiah acknowledges, “We are the clay, and you our potter; and all we are is the work of your hand”. (Isaiah 64:8)  The best strategy is to submit and cooperate with your maker.  When in union with him you can have a journey of satisfaction.  You can live the life that God intended for you.  You can celebrate who you are and embrace all that you are. 

 

 

 (Jer. 18:2-6,19:19,1,11/Rom. 9:21/Isaiah 29:16/Psalm 119:14)