Yet you, LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.Isaiah 64:8 NIV
I cannot play basketball like Michael Jordan. I do not have the intellect of Albert Einstein. Nor, as much as I might want them, do I have the eloquence of Charles Spurgeon, the zeal of the Apostle Paul, or the leadership ability of King David.
It is easy to look at the abilities and successes of other people and want that for yourself. And assume that, because you do not have the talent you see in others, you have little to offer God and his kingdom. But this little verse can help us to have a different perspective.
The psalmist compares God to a potter. A potter who can take a simple lump of clay and form it into a variety of different vessels according to his need. I am one of those lumps of clay that God has formed, and continues to shape, as he chooses. He did not give me the talents and skills I admire in many others. But I am what he wanted to make. And that…
