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Isaiah chapter 64 verse 8 says but now Lord you are our father we are the clay and you are our potter. We are all the work of your hand.

This is a humbling verse. My life is the work of God's hand.

Your life is the work of God's hand.

Just like clay in the hand of a potter.

He molds and makes, even breaks when necessary,

refines shapes, whatever is going on in our lives.

I think about just the details that we're going on in my life right now.

I encourage you to think about all the things that are going on in your life right now.

Just know that none of those things are going on in your life right now. Just know that none of those things are

random, that God is working in and through all of those things even the worst things

or things we don't understand why this is happening, that God is using even

those things to mold us, to make us, to shape us.

And so the posture of clay before potter is, God, make me, mold me, shape me, however you

want.

And the beauty is we can pray that because of what Isaiah 64 verse 8 says at the very beginning

But now, oh lord you are our father. He's our father. He's a good father. He's a perfect father, the perfect father, so we can trust him.

So if we were clay and the hands of a potter that was not trustworthy, that was not good, that was not loving, that was not trustworthy that was not good that was not loving that was not merciful that would be a really bad thing

but the good news of Isaiah 64 is that we are clay in the hands of a good potter, a gracious potter, a merciful potter, a father who loves

us as his children and cares for us and shapes us according to his care for us. So we pray, oh God, we are in your hands. Our lives are the work of your hand, my life, every one of our lives.

We are the work of your hands so shape us mold us make us however you will God we

confess it's not always easy we confess you shape us and mold us and make us in ways that we might not always choose in ways

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