potter and i am the clay

I've been listening to Joyce Meyers Potter and Clay tapes. She talked about a fine tea cup. The tea cup was in an expensive antique store, but it had a story of molding and fireing behind it's beauty. Thinking about the fireing process, God reminded me that a fire must have oxygen to stay aflame.

I was reminded that when we are being refined in a fire, we must have God's breath of air to get through. That should be encouraging as I go through molding and refining. Even as I am writing this, I feel myself have faith in this word, but not the grace to know God is willing to mold me. The fire will actually go out without God. I thought that I wanted the fire to go out, so I wouldn't have to be changed. But now I realize again that it is God's love that molds, and that I am privaledged here in the firey mold...