The Potter and the Clay

Isaiah 64:8 "We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand."
Wow!  What a relief to know that we are just the clay!  It is God who is the potter.  It is God who takes responsibility for molding us, shaping us, designing who we will become.  Like the clay the potter uses to make works of art and useful vessels, we too must go through a similar process.  Sometimes we have to be torn apart so that an imperfection can be taken out and we can be reshaped.  Like the clay, we, too must be shaped and molded. Like the clay, we, too must go through the fire to be hardened.  God allows us to go through all kinds of trials (fires) in order to perfect us and to make us useful for his purposes. We aren't to say to the potter "why are you making me this way?"  Our job is to submit, to be pliable and to humble ourselves so that the Potter can have his way with us.
I challenge you today to humble yourself before the Potter (God.)  Only then can He begin to shape you into what He wants you to be.