Undaunted Faith #2 -- Isaiah 64:1-8 -- It's not so bad to be clay, if God is the potter!

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Isaiah 64:1-8 is a corporate prayer. It's a corporate lament for the presence of God from a people who were missing God.  They want more God. But that corporate lament ends with hope, when Isaiah prays, "And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter.  We all are formed by your hand." Do you hear the shift?  Isaiah goes from asking the nation-scaring God to rend the heavens with fearsome fireworks to asking the Father God to put his hands on our hearts and shape us there.
          
The picture of the Father as potter and his people as the clay breaks this lament wide-open.  It's the New Covenant leaking into the Old Testament.  It's  relationship.  Rather than God bursting forth, God is invited in.  Rather than nations trembling and mountains quaking the Father is shaping our hearts. You are not alone nor are you left alone.  The Fingerprints of God Are All Over You.

It's not so bad to be clay, if God is the potter!