Bible Reading: Romans 9:21 & Luke 1:37
I teach a children's Sunday School Class. On occasion, I've given each child a package of modeling clay. It's fun to see what the kids create. However, I've never heard the clay complain that what a kid made with it was too boring or too ugly. The clay simply becomes what the "artist" molds it into.
God is like the young artists in my classroom or like the potter in today's Bible reading. This verse says, "When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?" Each child in my class and every potter has the right to mold whatever he or she chooses from his or her clay.
In the same way, God is continually working to shape us into a design of His choosing. God doesn't have to explain to us everything He does, allows, doesn't do, or doesn't allow. We are only the clay. Our sole responsibility is to become whatever the Master Artist wants us to become.
Ask God to shape your life into something very pleasing to Him...and be content with whatever he chooses to do with you.
"For nothing is impossible with God." Luke 1:37
Prayer: Heavenly Father, please, have Your way with my life. In Jesus' name. Amen.