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Isaiah chapter 64, verse 8, says, but now, O 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 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 of what are 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

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, O 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, there was not trustworthy, that was not good,

that was not loving, that was not merciful, 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

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