The Clay (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! Thank you so much for the opportunity to come to you today. We trust that you are enjoying your walk with the Lord and just to remind you that this is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice, we will be glad in it. This week we are reflecting on Jeremiah chapter 18, verses 1 through 6, where the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah, told him to go to another potter’s house and there he saw the potter working on a lump of clay at the potter’s wheel and the Lord spoke to Jeremiah and said ‘ Just as the clay is in the hand of the potter and so is the house of Israel in my hands’ and we are drawing some insights from that illustration. Today, we want to consider the clay. The clay in and of itself cannot become a vessel. The clay is dependent on the potter working on it to become something useful, meaningful, and purposeful. Secondly, of course, the potter expects the lump of clay to be of the right consistency, to hold itself together well, and to be able to go through the process that he intends taking that lump of clay and shaping it into whatever he desires it to become. So, he expects something of the clay. Now, we are like that clay, people are like that clay is what God is telling in this illustration. The difference of course is the lump of clay is an inanimate thing, whereas we are living beings with a free will, and we are free moral beings so that’s a huge contrast. But what we can say is, when we draw this comparison of the clay with us, as people is that by our own selves cannot become what God wants us to become. It is not our strength that is going to get us there, but we are dependent on the potter to work on us and help us become that. Secondly, it is our yielding of our free will, us choosing to align our will to His will, us willfully determining to choose to do the will of the Father which is our yieldedness to Him, which makes us the of right consistency, which makes us like the lump of clay that can be fashioned/ shaped into what the potter wants. So, as the clay is worked upon by the potter, here we are saying, we intentionally take our will and use our will, our willful choosing, willful yielding to what the potter wants for us which is us being a lump of clay that the potter can work on. So, as the clay we understand two things; we are dependent on the potter to become something meaningful, useful, and purposeful and secondly, we yield our will to the potter’s instruction and the potters will on our lives that makes us that lump of clay that he can actually work on to shape and fashion into something beautiful. Let us be like the lump of clay, knowing it is our will that we bring in surrender to the potter. Let’s pray, Father we look to you, you are the potter, we are the clay. We are dependent on you to become meaningful, purposeful vessels Lord and we surrender ourselves, align our wills, we take our wills to do your will, so that you can work in us and shape us and mold us as you desire. Help us in this process, we pray, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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