“The vessel the potter was making of clay was marred (spoiled), (messed up) in the potter’s hand, and the potter reworked (remolded) it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter.”
Isaiah 64:8 (ESV) “But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.”
No one says, ”Oh I want someone to work on me—smash me up and pound on me because I have so much wrong with me I can’t be fixed—I literally have to be remade. The Maker has to start over with me.
Yet this is what our loving Father wants to do with us when we are messed up. Father is so different from us here on fallen earth. We don’t have His patience nor do we have His investment. When you think about God He gave His son so He could redeem us. God has no desire to throw us in the trash.
I don’t know about you but that gives me hope. Hope that none of us are on the heap pile with the match to our feet. This verse gives us some important information to note. First the vessel was a work in progress, it was not complete. Secondly, the vessel was in the potter’s hand, although spoiled it was in the potters hand. And third it was remade into a vessel that the potter was pleased with.
Action step for us today: We are a work in progress…and so is everyone else. Let’s all be patient with ourselves and others.
Isaiah 64:8 (ESV) “But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.”
No one says, ”Oh I want someone to work on me—smash me up and pound on me because I have so much wrong with me I can’t be fixed—I literally have to be remade. The Maker has to start over with me.
Yet this is what our loving Father wants to do with us when we are messed up. Father is so different from us here on fallen earth. We don’t have His patience nor do we have His investment. When you think about God He gave His son so He could redeem us. God has no desire to throw us in the trash.
I don’t know about you but that gives me hope. Hope that none of us are on the heap pile with the match to our feet. This verse gives us some important information to note. First the vessel was a work in progress, it was not complete. Secondly, the vessel was in the potter’s hand, although spoiled it was in the potters hand. And third it was remade into a vessel that the potter was pleased with.
Action step for us today: We are a work in progress…and so is everyone else. Let’s all be patient with ourselves and others.
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