"O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand" (Isaiah 64:8).
These words of the Prophet Isaiah teach an important truth. If we will put our lives in the hands of the Lord and trust Him, humbly submitting our will to His will, He will make far more out of our lives than we can.
It is often tempting to think of ourselves as a lost cause, that we can't change, that we are who we are and there is no hope of becoming the person our Heavenly Father wants us to become.
This simply is not true. We can change. We can become better and better, over time--as the scriptures say, "line upon line; here a little, and there a little" (Isaiah 28:10). However, that change requires our desire to do so, our willingness to repent of our sins and to obey His commandments.
He has paid the price for our sins. As we humbly repent, He is not only willing but anxious to forgive us, so that we can have the "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Philippians 4:7).
"If ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage" (Book of Mormon, Mosiah 7:33).
I pray that we will humbly yield our will to God. As we do so, the Divine Potter will mold us each into a glorious being, worthy to return to His presence. We will have happiness in this life and eternal joy in the life to come.
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Love the pictures! Yielding ourselves to Him is so much harder than it sounds. The reality is that we naturally hold tight to our creature comforts and "freedoms" even though we have the best of intentions. I agree, it's a process that happens little by little, over many years, whereby we allow Him to slowly fashion us into His image.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. The process is so gradual that we may not even recognize that we are improving. For that reason it is important to step back from time to time and assess where we have been and where we are now in our quest to become better.
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