And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
-2 Corinthians 3:18
Imagine, if you will, the way a lump of clay is shaped into a beautiful piece of pottery when it is spun on a pottery wheel. The only thing the lump of clay has to do is lie passive, submitting itself to all of the shaping and turning of the potter.
The potter takes the clay that is surrendered in his hands, and begins to mold and fashion it according to his own will. He kneads and works it, he tears it apart and presses it together again. Sometimes he works at it for hours at a time, sometimes he lays it aside for days and does not touch it. And then, when by all these processes he has made it perfectly pliable in his hands, he proceeds to make it into the vessel he had planned to make all along. He turns it upon the wheel, planes it and smooths it, dries it in the sun, bakes it in the oven, and finally turns it out of his workshop, a glorious vessel fit for his use.
In our relationship with the Master Potter, we, as the clay, are not expected to do the Potter's work, but only to surrender in His Hands. We must continually be in a state of surrender and trust for the Potter to complete His work. How do you think the end result would look if the clay jumped out the the Potter’s hands and tried to mold and shape itself on the wheel?
Our souls, abandoned to the working of the Heavenly Potter, are being transformed (not we are transforming ourselves) from glory to glory into the image of the Lord by His Spirit. By a step of trust and faith we put ourselves into the hands of the Divine Potter. Through a gradual process He makes us into a vessel for His own use, honor and glory.
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