We are the Clay

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

The season of Lent is the season of grace! “Why do we have the season of Lent?” The primary purpose of Lent is that God may have his way with us. Lent is the time that reminds us of His steadfast love for us. It invites us to be renewed and reshaped in grace.

We are the clay in the hands of Divine Potter. We have turned out

badly. God can refashion us into a living image of his Son. The clay

can virtually do nothing to transform itself into an object of beauty.

But it can be pliable and sensitive to the potter’s touch. The clay is

never broken by anything the potter may do to it, unless of course

the clay has become hard and rigid. As long as it is malleable it will

never break, but once it begins to resist the potter’s touch, to push

against its shaping, it will be much in danger of breaking. So during

Lent we must try our best to become pliable and sensitive and to

cooperate with God’s grace. If we want to live as committed Christians,

we must focus our attention during Lent on Christ and his demands.