How Moldable Are You?

Week of August 23, 2024

“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?” (Isaiah 45:9, NKJV)

We are to be like clay in the potter’s hand. Clay does not determine the shape of the object fashioned. It doesn’t debate with the wisdom of the potter. It’s laughable to think that the clay as it comes off the potter's wheel is saying “I don’t like the way I have been shaped. I have a few ideas about how best I should be shaped. I have my rights, you know.” How absurd is that? But have we been guilty of that in so many words?

We are to be moldable clay in the potter's hand. He knows best what we are to do and what we are to become in life. The hymn says it this way,

Have Thine own way, Lord!

Have Thine own way!

Thou art the Potter;

I am the clay.

Mold me and make me

After thy will

While I am waiting

Yielded and still.

God can mold us and shape our lives in magnificent ways which we could never imagine but we must be willing to say “After Thy Will.” Are you open, willing and free to allow God to be the Potter in your life?

God Bless, Pastor Rick