Considerations ~ Clay in the Potter's Hands

          The hands that form the clay into the likeness of the Son are the hands of the Father who knows exactly what his Son feels like. There is an intimacy between the invisible God and his image where the Father knows what the Son feels like in his hands. When the Father takes our clay lives in his hands, he knows how different we feel to him. He is able to take that clay, and keep changing it, molding it, and squeezing it into a shape that his hands know in perfect fellowship. He will keep moving his hands with strategic purpose until that day when they move around the clay and feel exactly the way they do when they embrace his Son.

          The Potter will one day rest from his labor of making us like Jesus. On that day he will have the deep, wonderful satisfaction that he has brought our justification, our sanctification, and our glorification together into one reality so that they are all perfectly combined into Jesus-likeness, the image-of-God-likeness he decided on before the beginning of time. The blueprint, the lump of clay, and the completed project will be one and the same. The design God had in his mind, the design that he held within him as he looked upon his Son, will then be matched by something that is equal to that in us.

 

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