Perhaps one of the greatest portraits of God and His people serving Him is a picture of the Potter and the Clay. Jesus is the Potter. He excels in taking old worthless clay and transforming it by His grace into a vessel of honor and glory.
Because His hand is always on the vessel, the Potter instantly senses a change in the clay as it spins on the wheel. There may be a need or a sin or a flaw in an attitude that needs corrected.
Jeremiah 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
The Potter takes the marred vessel, presses it back into a lump and begins again. Never has the Heavenly Potter thrown His clay away. He paid the ultimate price for His clay. He died for it to redeem it from sin. He’s determined to make something special out of it.
We are to grow where we are planted and use our gifts for God’s glory. If we place ourselves in the Potter’s hands and genuinely allow the Lord to work His will in us, then we will be blessed and will be vessels of honor to His glory.
