We are the clay, you are the potter.
We’ve come to the last day of our series, 7 Questions to Start the Year Right.
Perhaps you don’t have the answers to the questions I have posed this past week. Maybe they will need to rattle around in your head awhile—that’s okay! This is not a test you need to pass but rather an opportunity to sit and listen for what God might want to say to your heart as you begin a fresh new year.
Every day, I gave you a question to ask yourself, but today I want to end with a question you can ask God: Heavenly Father, what do you want to create in me this year?
God’s desire is for us to become the person He has created and intended for us to be. One of my favourite quotes is:
God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to leave you that way – Max Lucado.
It’s so true! God, in His extravagant grace, is always finding ways to create in us more beauty, peace, love, power, and so much more. Isaiah understood this when he wrote:
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. – Isaiah 64:8 NIV
In this process of creation, the clay is rather passive; it’s just clay. But the potter does the hard work, the beating of the clay, the shaping, the moulding.
There are things we’re called to cultivate in our own lives, like good habits and Godly character, but there are also things God will create in us if we allow Him.
Pray this prayer with me:
“Heavenly Father, thank You that You are the Potter and I am the clay. I am open to whatever You want to create within me. I surrender myself into Your hands, have Your way in me and help me to be humble and teachable in the process. In Jesus’ name, amen.
