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On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
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The root of all sin is pride. The Word gives us a list of the things that the Lord hates and it starts with haughty eyes, pride. {Pro.6:16-17} That is about thinking too highly of ourselves and losing sight of the fact that we were just a lump of mud, clay, until the heavenly Potter molded us into something wonderful that He desires, a vessel filled with His Spirit that is destined to look just like His Son, Jesus Christ. {Rom.8:29} We are then fearfully and wonderfully made just as David wrote. {Ps.139:14}

One of the great dangers in these perilous times is that we might, just as the world desires, boast that we are ‘self made men’ (or woman for that matter) who would ignore the fact that God made us, we are the work of His hands. {Ps.100:3} And so rightly, we are not our own—that vessel that is us belongs to God. {1Cor.6:19} We have been given the very, very costly (look at the cross) free gift of salvation. {Eph.2:8} We did not earn it, we could not in any way earn it!

It would do us well to remember that while we are invited to make our requests known to God {Php.4:6} as we mature in the Spirit our great desire will be to know and do the things that He desires. Then, like Jesus, the perfect Vessel, we will be able to prayerfully say regardless of the challenge, “Nevertheless, Thy will be done.” {Lk.22:42} That is a prayer that will lead us to the peace of God that surpasses all understanding {Php.4:6} and to true victory in Jesus. {1Cor.15:57} That is always His desire!

The natural worldly people struggle in life more and more as the world becomes progressively more evil as evidenced daily in the news. And yet, they will not repent of their murders, nor of their drugs, (GR. pharmakeia) nor of their immorality (GR. porneia) nor of their thefts (GR. klemma) {Rev.9:21}

Like the apostle Paul, a vessel of God, we need to pray that the Lord would open the eyes of the unsaved so that they may turn from the darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God and His gift of amazing grace. That is the only way that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus. {Acts 26:20}

Our Father, the Potter who reconciled us to Himself through Christ has entrusted us with the ministry of reconciliation:

“Namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:19)

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