The Savage Five

As I continue to reflect on God as my potter, making me into a beautifully useful vessel of honor, I realized that often we want to direct the hand of our maker, thinking that our opinion matters in the construction of a life completely yielded to Christ.   When we try to direct God in our development we don't realize how we are going against His plan for our lives.  A plan that consists of a conforming of our wills to His will.  A plan that often times takes drastic cutting, carving, shaping, pressing and washing in order to obtain the aforementioned vessel of honor. Until we turn away from unrighteousness and allow the Lord our maker to do the good work of the Potter that is intricate, laborious, and at times painful, we will be rebelling against the fashioning of our frame and character that is part of the sanctification process that leads to great beauty in the sight of the Creator. You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay....

    I recently started throwing pots on a potters wheel and like most beginners come face to face with the question, "  Is my clay centered?"  So in order to gain more insight as to whether or not I am centering correctly I went to watching some instructional videos. The first video I watched today, as I struggled with the spending my early morning time reading my Bible instead, realized that this business of centering the clay has everything to do with stepping on the path of righteousness!     Jeremiah conveys to Israel the message from the LORD that gives us this concept of God being the potter so I know the Lord is in the business of centering pots! 18  This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2  “Jeremiah, go down to the potter’s house. I will give you my message there.” 3  So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working with clay at the wheel. 4  He was making a pot from clay. But there w...