“… as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are
you in My hand…” (Jeremiah 18:6)
Dr. Henry Poppen, one of China’s first
missionaries, spent forty years telling its people about the love of Jesus and
how He died to take away their sins. One day, after he had finished speaking, a
man approached him and said, “We know this Jesus! He has been here.”
Dr. Poppen explained how that wasn’t possible
because Jesus had lived and died long ago in a country far from China. “Oh no”,
the man insisted. “He died here. I can even show you His grave .” He led Dr.
Poppen outside the city to a cemetery where an American was buried. There,
inscribed on a crumbling gravestone was the name of a medical doctor who felt
called by God to live and die among the people of this remote Chinese village.
And when its people heard Dr. Poppen describe the attributes of Jesus – His
mercy, love, kindness, His willingness to forgive – they remembered
the missionary doctor.
God will use you when you are willing to become
‘clay in the potter’s hand.’ Clay has no aspiration; it’s moldable, pliable
and completely subject to the potter’s will . Henry Blackaby says, “When God’s
assignment demands humility, He finds a servant willing to be humbled. When it
requires zeal, He looks for someone He can fill with His Spirit. God uses holy
vessels, so He finds those who will allow Him to remove their impurities.
It’s not a noble task being clay. There’s no
glamour to it, nothing boast-worthy, except it’s exactly what God’s looking for.”
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