Already we have established a few things about this passage.  I’ve pulled out one major theme, but this time I’ll focus in on the clay as it is delt with by the potter in a little more detail.

There isn’t really isn’t much that I’m going to pull out here (at least this time).  But there is one thing that is so simple and so profoud at the same time.  I love how we can examine scripture and see conflicting expressions that are used in complete and perfect unity.  But what I want to say today is that, despite the potter’s frustration with the clay, despite the constant working and reworking of the clay and the ever remaining problems with the clay itself, the clay is never set out on the table to be pushed aside.  The potter molds the clay into a vessel as the clay will allow him to do so.  But when the clay becomes spoiled, he then begins to reshape the clay into a different form.  The potter is always working with the clay and the clay never leaves the potter’s hand.  The same is true of us.  We have our problems, we are marred creatures, we are leaky vessels in need of repair and reshaping.  And even though we fail so many times to allow God the freedom to make with us what He wills, we are always in His hands being worked on. 

What Love is This?!!!  What a blessing!!! May your soul be satified in knowing that he who has began a good work in you will complete it to the end!