We are the clay, God is the potter, any questions?

Monday November 28th Isaiah 64: 7 No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins. 8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. When God seemed distant from the people of Israel, they often used the vision of God’s face being hidden. I think more than likely, the face that was hidden was not God’s but theirs. At least as New Testament Christians, that is our experience. When God seems distant, it is usually because we are distant from God. The solution is to stop trying to run the show ourselves and let God take control. Instead of the clay telling the potter what it should look like and function as, perhaps the clay should let the potter be the one who forms what will be. From dust we came and to dust we shall return, but in the mean time, God has been able to form that dust into some pretty marvelous vessels. We call them the saints. God calls them the children of God. It is most of us sometimes and a few of us most of the time.