The Potter's Hand

Where would you say your life stands before God? Do you think He desires to make any changes in you? As a potter shapes a sculpture applying pressure and molding what needs molding, what areas in your life need His pressure? What areas needs some skillful molding?

It seems to me we have a few choices. We can resist His pressure. Rebel against His pressure. After all, pressure applied like that is not comfortable. It may even be painful at times. Resistance is an option. Many have made this choice over the years. If you are His child, this will result in even more pressure. More shaping. More pain. Even if He has to start over and over again. If you are His child, He has pledged by His word to not give up on you and to keep applying the pressure and the shaping all the days of your life. [Phil 1:6]

You can choose to submit. To yield to the pressure. To go along with His intelligent design. You still may endure discomfort but you know He has purpose in the pain. The pressure is to ultimately to make you a useful vessel in His hands. There is no higher purpose for living than to be someone He can use to bring healing and good in this world for His glory. This is the best choice. To simply give into whatever He wants to make of you. [Ps 139:16-18.]

You can choose to remain moldable all the days of your life. To remain soft and pliable in His hands. If you do not do this, you will become hard and brittle. Easily broken. Impossible to mold again without intense breaking and beginning all over. To remain yielded to Him is a far better option.

Finally, we must make the choice to remain in His hands to let Him do in us and through us whatever He pleases. That is a frightening prospect for some. Why? Our Father, the Potter, loves us. He has good and intelligent designs for our lives. He created you with a purpose and works to mold you into that purpose. If we get out of His hand, we are like a vessel of water that sits on the counter. We can never do anything until the Potter picks us up, pours us out to bless others. Remain useful by remaining in His hands.

To summarize you choices are simple. Resist. Submit. Remain moldable. Remain in the Potter's hand. What choice will you make.

Jeremiah 18:6 (ESV)
⁶  “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.