LORD, you’re our Father.
We’re your clay and you’re the potter.
We’re whatever you make of us.
ROMANS 9:20 (MSG)
Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?”
THE ESSENCE
Humility has to be our response to our inability to understand what God's up to.
DAILY FODDER
Why do we assume that God has to make everything he does comprehensible to us? Is that even possible, considering the complexilty of the reality he manages?
PRAYER
Master Potter, indeed, you are the potter and I am the clay. Forgive me for assuming that I know more about what's going on than I do. Show me how to humbly approach you when I don't understand. I don't want to become the whinner, assuming that I know better than you. I don't. Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Give us enough food for today.
Forgive us our wrongdoing,
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
