Yet you, Lord, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand
At school my pottery teacher (at 93 years of age, still very active) taught me the basics sufficient for me to fashion a pot moulded by my creative eye. I understood that my artistic ingenuity needed years of gradually growing experience. I had neither the time, nor the interest to develop any talents that may have been waiting in the wings.
Very much like a vase Our Father begins to encourage us, with His tender hands constantly on us, shaping us to become the beautiful work He is creating. The Father's guidance daily enters our thoughts, counselling us to do all that He plans enacting His design for our well being.
Moulding us into the person Our Father wishes us to become, is a life long process filled with stops, and starts the result of our easy willingness to do things our way, rather than following Our Father's tailor made plan for our well being.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: ... ~ Jeremiah 18:1-6
It is the way of human life that our doubts, our anxieties, our misgivings oblige The Potter to begin again, and again to continue His loving endeavour moulding us into His heart's desire.
Our Father's patience, and love for His children has no limits.
Here lies our dilemma many of our life's struggles are the result of trying to tell The Potter what to do. I want God to listen to me, I know how to run my own life. I know what’s best for me. Don’t I? Ha, ha...then we wonder why we face so many troubles day, after day. Those who seek God’s will return to the pottery wheel again, and again asking The Potter to continue the work that He offers us for our well being until our journey of self discovery is completed.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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