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 our Potter, like the young artists in my classroom or like the potter in Romans 9:21. 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, The Potter is continually working to shape us into a design of His choosing. The Potter 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 God, The Potter 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.
Related Verses:
Luke 1:37 – “For nothing is impossible with God.”
Isaiah 64:8 – "Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.”
Genesis 1:1, 31 – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.”
Hebrews 1:10 – “He also says, ‘In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.’”
Romans 9:20 – “But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? ‘Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?”
Hebrews 11:3 – “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”
Isaiah 29:16 – “You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘He did not make me’? Can the pot say of the potter, ‘He knows nothing’?”