Pottery.....

Pottery.....

Wherever we have travelled, I have taken pictures of pottery, even the potter working with the clay.   I have a whole album of pictures of various clay pots, pieces of clay pots, clay pots from different cultures, different ages in time, clay pots for different uses, clay used for different objects than pots.....

It was a reminder that there is a potter and that potter visualizes different uses for clay, ......

There are three legged pots, which the Chinese created to catch more heat in the fire when cooking......clay used for roofs......terra cotta soldiers.....pots used for transporting water or other things.....to carried on the head, or an on the side of an animal .......plates from which to eat....chamber pots....clay masks....beads.....all were needed and useful...even the pieces of pottery had a use.....

There are whole books written about the uses, the how-tos of clay making and mixing, various ways to work the clay....to mold the clay....where to find clay....how to strengthen the clay....and how the to "cook" the clay....

If it is not fired, the item will disintegrate with moisture...the higher the heat, the stronger the clay item will be....

Then there is the decorating of the clay.......so much a part of various cultures, times, places.....just as we are...

Our Potter, the Creator of the universe, has designed us for different times, places, uses...decorated us differently...we may hold different things, have different uses, cover different items,

We can argue with the Creator ......but we are still the clay, being molded, used....He still decides the use.....the firing temperature for strengthening....

There are times when I don't like the firing, the molding....But He sees the finished product....and is working toward  that as He works.....

Thank you, even through molding, the heat....to be used as a vessel of Your choosing.....

2 Samuel 17:28
brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils,

Job 2:8
Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

Psalm 2:9
You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

Psalm 31:12
I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.

Isaiah 30:14
It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”

Romans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?

Isaiah 41:25
“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.

Isaiah 45:9
“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

Isaiah 64:8
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 18:4
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

Jeremiah 18:6
He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

Romans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?