Molded by Christ   

As recorded in Jeremiah 18, the prophet was told by God to go to the potter’s house and observe how he shaped the clay in whatever way he desired. I have never tried to do something like that. I have, however, often tried to mold and shape my life into something I want it to be. And when I choose to do things my way, it doesn’t always turn out very well.
The Bible tells us that we should let God be the potter and us be the clay in His hands, to let Him fashion us according to His will for our lives. Isaiah 64:8 says, “But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter; and all of us are the work of Thy hand.”
There are two simple lessons we can take from this: 1) The wisest thing we can ever do is to submit to God and let Him be the one who molds us and makes us into what we ought to be. 2) We need to get rid of those things in our lives that might get in the way of becoming what God wants us to be.
In speaking to Jeremiah, notice that God spoke about the vessel becoming spoiled or ruined. Or, as the KJV says, it became “marred in the hand of the potter.” Apparently it’s not that the potter messed up as he was shaping the clay. Instead there was something about the clay or in the clay that worked against what the potter was trying to create. Perhaps the clay itself was too stiff and thus resisted conforming to the shape desired by the potter. Or perhaps there was something within the clay, a stone or some other thing that should not be present in the clay.
God’s desire is to mold us into a beautiful creation. His goal is to conform our lives into the very image of His Son. But we can be stubborn sometimes; we can be too stiff and set in our ways, and thus we resist what God is trying to do in our lives. And like a stone within the clay, sometimes we allow ourselves to be filled with sin, thus making it hard for God to mold us into what He wants us to be.
Let us consider what the song says we ought to do: Bring Christ your broken life, So marred by sin, He will create anew, Make whole again. Your empty, wasted years He will restore, And your iniquities Remember no more.

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