01/02/2026
What feels like a long season of struggle or refinement to us is only a moment in the hands of our Creator. God, the Master Potter, sees what we cannot yet see.
My friend and I attended a pottery-throwing class as a celebratory gift for her upcoming wedding. As we watched, the master potter pinched clay from a bag of wet earth and placed it on the spinning wheel. She pressed it down, shaping it from a tall tower into an upside-down bowl, preparing it for what was to come.
She then began to demonstrate how to form the clay into a bowl or a vase. She pulled it, squeezed it, and trimmed it carefully as the shape took form in her hands. Just when it appeared finished, she turned the piece around, noticed a small flaw, and without hesitation she cut some away and added more clay.
It reminded me that when we believe the pain is over, God may still be shaping us. He sometimes gives, and sometimes takes away(Job 1:21.).
What feels like a long season of struggle or refinement to us is only a moment in the hands of our Creator. God, the Master Potter, sees what we cannot yet see.
Just as the clay must be pressed, reshaped, and sometimes reworked to reach its purpose, so are our lives formed by God’s loving and intentional hands. Even when the process is uncomfortable, He is never careless. He is shaping us, patiently and purposefully, into vessels that reflect His will and His glory Jeremiah 18:16
