Pots

"So the potter reworked the clay into another vessel, as seemed good to him to make it," Jeremiah 18:4.

Have thine own way, Lord, thou art the potter, I am the clay; mold me and make me after thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. Words from the hymn point to Jeremiah's experience watching a potter forming clay pots. Jehovah God spoke to the prophet through the potter's hands. The potter molds the clay according to the potter's desire, not the clay's. But if the clay doesn't shape to the potter's design, then the potter reworks the clay per a new potter design. Honorable use or dishonorable use. Potter's choice. Not clay's. Yielding to the Potter does not always bring ease. Consider Jesus, Not my will but thine be done.

With a brother or sister today, we encourage each other to conform to the Potter's hands. Honorable use or dishonorable use, we trust God's judgment. And, together, we give thanks for Jesus' yielding to whatever God deemed good to make.