Treasure in Clay Pots

It is so wonderful to know that even when we are unfaithful, Yah is not. Just because we are having a bad day or a lapse of faith does not change His promises to us.

"If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself." 2 Timothy 2:13

This is in part because He knows we are a work in progress. More importantly, since He is our Creator, He is intimately aware of how we are made.

"for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." Psalm 103:14

This is why Yahshua Ha Messiah is perfect for the office of King, High Priest and Mediator. He suffered through all the temptations that are common to fallen flesh:

Hebrews 4:15—'For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."

Yahshua pleads for us at his Father's throne, knowing just how difficult it is to remain faithful through every type of temptation. Doubt, fear, forebodings from without and within all can undermine our faith...for a season. All the same, we can overcome because HE overcame. The point is to trust Yahshua to prepare us for God's Kingdom. If we do that, Jesus will give us his righteous spirit received from the Father which will begin to transform us into vessels holding great treasure.

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves." 2 Corinthians 4:7

Remember that an earthen vessel starts out as dust or clay. If we yield to the Potter's hand, we can find ourselves transformed into reflections of his glory!

The Potter's Hand

"I am the potter, you are the clay." Many of us have read this but do we know the original context and scripture this thought is found in? Here is where it comes from:

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel." Jeremiah 18:6

Those of us who belong to Yah through His Son, Yahshua have the prospect of being molded to God's purposes. The house of Israel was in a covenant relationship which they freely entered into at Mt. Sinai. Those of us who have been purchased under the better covenant through Yahshua's blood have the same prospect although now God's Son is the agent through whom the molding takes place. This is why Paul stresses the importance of the building up and uniting of Christ's Body which is his assembly or church.

"from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love." Ephesians 4:16

Like a body builder, Yahshua builds his body up! He is the head of the body and hence still part of it but he molds and sculpts each part, each individual so that we grow in faith and support each other in love. Yah is still the originator of this power to transform but He has given it to His Son to mold us to be co-heirs in God's Kingdom. Once set by the potter's hand we can say:

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." 2 Corinthians 4:7