The Potter's Hand lyrics © Music Services, Inc. For it is God Who Works in You. In his writing, Paul asked (Rom. As I said, we could read this as if it's a parable because there was certainly a spiritual meaning behind it. We need to center ourselves on Jesus, the Living Water, and let Him begin to mold us into who we were meant to be. Clay In The Bible And How God Is The Potter And We Are The Clay. As I cannot fully see my brother's vision until it is near completion, I do not believe we fully understand the vessel that God is molding us into until He is ready for us to know. He could have just left his creation, he gave us free will after all, but in his big love he wants us to be better every day, until the day when we die and we get to be at his side. He grows my faith a little stronger (1 Peter 5:10). It's amazing how diamonds are made. 20 No, don't say that. He is motivating me to follow Him (Hebrews 5:8). Occasionally it means we have to go through the fire again to be refined and reshaped! Verse mapping or Bible study can aid you in understanding these verses and applying them to your life.
22 In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those on whom his anger falls, who are destined for destruction. And that is a work that continues on and on. And it is the plain and ordinary that we can most closely identify with. He needs our full cooperation in order to be able to get that deep on the inside of us. In other words, we have to find exactly how pottery is made if we want to fully understand what God is trying to tell us in this most incredible analogy. If he did not care or take his work seriously, he would have settled for the vessel of clay that was marred in his hands. When we are in the Potter's hands, feeling His pressures, feeling the molding of His fingers, we can relax and trust Him, for we know that this Potter has suffered with us and knows how we feel, but is determined to make us into a vessel useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work: "In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. Though we are to press on and go as far as God will be wanting us to go in our specific callings, there is another side of the coin. Being molded by god. I had to deal with the naysayers who thought I wasn't good enough (one of them being me! If anything is distracting us from following Jesus, our all-powerful God will do whatever it takes to lead us to change. And then, I did nothing. How is God Shaping You? Search me, O God, and know my heart!
He can mold and shape you into the finished version of yourself, just as He wants! Each day I live, Lord, I pray that Your Holy Spirit will guide my path. And some of us need to understand that God, as our heavenly Father, has the authority to do the same; and we need to respect Him.
We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart. You have been created by God to be an unique person – unlike any other person that has ever been created and born into this world. But in a potter's hands, it's the beginning of something beautiful. Too many Christians do not have Jesus as the real Lord in their lives. Or it could have been that the clay was too soft and, again, it was something that the potter could not shape and mold as he purposed. I Am Just a Nobody…Right? In Jesus name I pray. The psalmist says, "…I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness". We are the clay and you are our potter. But you know, O LORD, all their plots to kill me. God is molding me and shaping me. The potter's wheel in that day and time was actually two wheels linked together by a pedestal. He is showing me how to be a comfort to someone (2 Corinthians 1:6). Too many Christians quit and bail out on the Lord as they are about half-way up the mountain.
God will be vindicated, because He is not being cruel when He causes you to suffer. God, The Potter, is constantly at work at the wheel. Hello, dear @Livingwater.