“But now, O Lord, you are our Father! We are clay and you are the one who formed us, and we are all the work of your hands.”
The believer’s life is described as clay in the hands of the potter. God is the Servant. To become a useful and valuable vessel, clay must undergo a process of formation in such a way that it becomes pliable, flexible, and soft. Then God’s hand began to work, taking the lump of clay and shaping it according to His will.
We cannot run away from the process of formation, because there is no instant term in God. “Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the LORD, who made all things, who single-handedly stretched out the heavens, spread out the earth–who is with me'”.
God’s formation was painful and unpleasant, like being in the desert, that’s why so many people complained, grumbled, and rebelled. Because they continued to rebel against God, the Israelites had to wander for 40 years in the wilderness before reaching the promised land. “…God did not lead them by a road to the land of the Philistines, although this road was the closest; for God said: ‘Do not let the people repent when they face war, so that they return to Egypt.’ But God led the people around by way of the desert to the Red Sea.”.
God has not finished dealing with us as long as we are still rebellious and living astray from His righteous path. “Woe to the one who argues with his Maker; he is nothing but the shard of a pot! Does clay say to its maker: ‘What have you made’ or what has he made: ‘You have no hands!'”.
Have surrender to God when processed, because God knows what is best for us. “When the vessel, which he is making from the clay in his hands, breaks, the potter reworks it into another vessel according to what is good in his sight.” We are God’s handiwork, created to do good works.
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫 