From Clay To Diamonds

Jeremiah 18: 1-6

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you My message." So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 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.
Then the Word of the Lord came to me: "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as the potter does?" declares the Lord. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel."

Isaiah 64: 8

Yet, O Lord, You are our Father, we are the clay, You are the Potter, we are all the work of Your hand.

Romans 9: 21

Does not the Potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

O my dear, dear Father! Thank You for for all You have done, are doing, and will finish in my life and the lives of my children and grandchildren and their children. 

Thank You for this picture You gave me while I was praying with my prayer partner: We begin as clay pots fit for nothing but garbage. Then You save us and clean out all the filth within us. Then You continually work in us to transform the opaque clay into crystal, little by little, moment by moment, molecule by molecule; transforming these clay pots into crystal goblets, crystal vases, Your glory shining out from us like Diamonds, as You had Paul tell the Corinthian church: 

II Corinthians 4: 6-7

God ... made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

O Father, even now, once in a while, Your goodness and compassion shines out through a tiny window of crystal in this clay, and others can see Your glory in us. 

I thank You, dear Father, so much, that now that You have begun thus good work in us, that You will continue to finish and perfect it until our King returns in His Glory, and we will shine like the Sun, as Stars in His Crown!

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!