Pottery is an interesting art form. Creating magnificent vessels out of clay is a wonderful trade. The process for creating with pottery is not hard, it is easy enough that a child can do, but it can be tedious. When creating a pottery out of clay and a small pebble or rock appears the pottery will have to be destroyed and redone. Our lives are like clay, in fact, in the creation of man God did make him out of dust (gen.3:19), and through out life pebbles appear in us that merit destruction. God’s mercies are from everlasting to everlasting (ps. 103:17).\u00a0 Job understood this concept of the clay formation (job 33:6), he figured out that through out\u00a0all the things he\u00a0went through\u00a0God could\u00a0make all things new again.<\/p>\n
Isaiah 64:8<\/p>\n
8\u00a0<\/sup>But now, O Lord<\/span>, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.<\/span><\/p>\n In the clay vessel formation the hand of the potter plays a major role. If the potter is not gentle the vessel cannot take the form desired. A good vessel when done correctly can do what it is was created for. In the wedding at Canaan\u00a0Jesus turned water into wine when the servants filled the jars with water (Jh. 2:6-9). The vessels were readily available to be used for the purification of the Jews, but Jesus changed their use to be vehicles for miracles. The finish product of a potter’s vessel can be used to what it is created for, but it does not end there; God can use it to whatever he wants. We do not have to wait till we are finish products in God to be used mightily, he can use the mire essence of\u00a0clay to wrought out a miracle. Jesus healed this\u00a0blind guy by spitting on the ground and creating clay (Jh. 9:6). Once one is on the potters wheel during the formation he can use it the way the potter wishes as God illustrated to the prophet Jeremiah(Jer. 18:4-6). Jeremiah was told to go to the potter’s house because there he would hear the word of God, and it is in God’s house where we too hear the word of the Lord. Paul\u00a0also understood this concept of the\u00a0potter’s clay\u00a0formation in Romans 9 he states\u00a0in a rhetoric question that the potter at his discretion can make a vessel for honor\u00a0and or dishonor leaving us to understand that\u00a0our lives are dependent\u00a0on God’s will (9:21).<\/p>\n