A New Hope
"Sometimes we get the idea that God has a plan for people like me who are pastors or missionaries or someone who works full time in the church, but the truth is - God has a wonderful plan for everybody.
"Just as the potter controls the clay God wants to control you. Just as the potter has a plan for the clay and a purpose for the clay God has a plan and a purpose for you. Psalm 138:8 says,
"The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me." (Psalm 138: 8, HCSB)
God has a purpose and a plan for your life and He wants to see to it that plan and purpose is fulfilled if you will let Him.
"Just as God is the potter in this little story remember that we are the clay. Just as the clay is nothing without the potter we are nothing without God. Do you know what is true about clay? It is only useful in the hands of the potter. Likewise, we are only useful when we are in the hands of God.
"Even though the clay is useless without the potter it is not worthless to the potter. To you clay may be unimportant. It may be unattractive, undesirable, or you may look at it as cheap, but to the potter, clay is more valuable than gold and more precious than diamonds. Don't let the fact that you are called clay in the Bible deflate your ego. If anything, it ought to inflate your self-esteem, because just as clay is valuable to the potter, that is how valuable you are to God."
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Keywords: hope, potter, clay, new
