Today, I was thinking about the imagery that scripture paints of our relationship to God as being clay to a potter. It caused me to ponder the ramifications of this analogy and so my random thoughts are as follows.
I often times feel in my life that I am being squeezed into a mold of what everyone else thinks. The molds of what to do, what to say, who to associate with, how to spend my time, etc. are a few of the many molds I find myself not only squeezed into, but also somehow strangely attracted to. However, as I ponder this idea of potter and clay it leads me to a few realizations. I don’t know a lot about pottery, but I do understand enough to recognize that pottery produced by a mold carries a less significant value than pottery produced by a master potter. The pottery that is massed produced is just a reproduction of a mold. There are no unique features that one pot possesses over that of another produced in the same mold. The pottery made by a master potter, however, is a unique product of his skilled hand. It’s beautiful and set apart as a work of art. The molded pottery is mass produced and sold to the general public for a general price and a general use.
Molded pottery is easy to make and very cost efficient. In the same way it’s easy to auto pilot through life and live the status quo. But there is something in me, as well as the rest of humanity, that says there is something more—and there is much more. It’s the process of no longer being confirmed to the pattern of the molds, and allowing the potter to shape, in which us earthen vessels find life.
-Matt Assel-
who we are:
- andy rhea and his thoughts
- The music of andy rhea and his band is a music of question asking and idea sharing. This music is for the searchers and the finders, the askers and the knowers. And for all who don’t fit into any of those categories, it’s good to bob your head to as well.