Totality!

.........Shall the potter be considered equal with the clay, That the thing that is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; Or the thing that is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? ISAIAH 29:16 AMP

1. All through the process of melting down, fashioning, beating, molding and design, the clay is silent. Not our own clay. We talk, we argue, we ask questions, we demand answers, we get angry/bothered when answers do not come, or when we don't hear what we want.

2. The Potter and the clay WILL never be equal. There is no amount of knowledge I can acquire that would make me think that I have known all about God. His mercies are new every morning; so is his nature, power, might and favour. You really cannot place him in a box.

3. Can I deny my ownership or be wiser than my creator and designer? Its what we do daily: denying God's hold over our lives, seeking to do as we please, charting our own course for ourselves, in the belief that we know what's best. We clear the way ahead through acquisition of property, degrees, family and fortune, yet we are empty of purpose and direction because physical tokens cannot satisfy spiritual needs.

We want to look better than we do now and want a different set of circumstances than what we have now. Clay must always be silent in the hands of the potter, who knows at what temperature and treatment the clay would best fulfil its purpose. Heat (trials) is a fundamental part of that process, and I must submit to it, if I will be a vessel of honour in the hands of the potter, and fulfil the purpose behind the SHAPE I have been given. His time of favour is here.