Waiting on the Glory of Our Finishing

Jeremiah 18:4

And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

God has the power and the authority to raise up nations to do His good work.  He also may dispose of nations as He sees fit if they do not please Him.  He certainly has the power to rule over individual lives.  He will always rule and reign perfectly according to His justice and His goodness.

  

Our Father in heaven rules over the lives of all men through His Son, Jesus.  Jesus puts His hands on each of us to insure that we are molded uniquely in accordance with the Father's plans for our lives.  Jesus is the Great Potter.  He keeps His hands on us, His clay, at all times.  He is in no hurry to form us according to His purposes.  He knows that He will take whatever time is necessary to get us to conform to the purposes that His Father has for our lives.  He will even break us, the clay, if it is necessary for Him to see us reach our chosen form.

As the clay, all we have to do is surrender to the hands of the potter on our lives.  From the point of surrender, we should have no concerns for the potter will form us perfectly.  We simply wait on the glory of our finishing.

Let us surrender all that we are to the hands of the Great Potter.  There is no better place to be than in His hands.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You that You have good and perfect plans for our lives. We thank You for Your patience as You mold us into the good and faithful servants that will stand before You one day in the image of Your Son, Jesus. We pray for the grace to surrender to the hands of Your Son on our lives.  We pray for the strength to endure through the shaping process.  May we become the perfect vessels of Your love that You created us to be.  We ask all these things in the name of the Great Potter, Jesus Christ.