Clay

Jeremiah 18:2-6 - "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of the Lord came to me: "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the Lord. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel." (NIV)

Romans 9:20-21 - But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? (NIV)

Isaiah 64:8 (New International Version)

⁸ Yet, O LORD, you are our Father.
       We are the clay, you are the potter;
       we are all the work of your hand.

We are like that clay when it comes to being molded into what God wants us to be.

When you make a pot on the potter’s wheel, you wrap your hands around a lump of clay as it spins and begin to squeeze and mold in into center. One the lump of clay is centered, you focus your attention on opening it up, by plunging your thumbs slowly through the middle and then use balanced strength of your fingers to change the shape and direction of the clay, molding it into its final shape. While you are working, imperfections pop up. These imperfections are cut off and discarded, and the pot is reborn in another shape and pot.

In the same way a potter shapes a lump of clay, we are shaped by God. We begin as a useless lump, full of potential and possibilities. Once we center our lives on God, much the way the clay becomes centered on the wheel, God can begin to open us, to make us useful. This may hurt, much like when opening a pot, you plunge through the center. With the powerful guiding hands of God, we are molded and shaped into a unique vessel. Along the way, complications might arise that threaten to destroy everything. The master Potter skillfully cuts away the harmful parts and reshapes us into a vessel of worth.

This process is not easy. Often, we pray for the Lord to use us, we pray that we want our relatives and loved ones saved, and we pray that we can be more like Jesus. When the Lord answers our prayers and begins to shape us in a tool that can be used to reach the world, we are quick to yell, “Hands off! That hurts!” Only by trusting the hand of the potter and allowing him to shape our faith, our walk, our heart can we endure to become a beautiful work, shining brightly for God.

Moral:
God knows what He's doing (for all of us).
He is the Potter, and we are His clay.
He will mold us and make us,
so that we may be made into a flawless piece of work
to fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will.

“here LordweI am your clay and you are my Potter, mold us in to whom you want us to be in your eye’s, mold me the clay that had been crushed in many way’s but now is in your precious hands, take us into your hands and make us into the godly people that you want us to be in your precious eye’s, take us as we are and take control over our lives, mold us  precious Potter.”