Ceramics Class (100th Devotion) 😋

Ceramics Class

“But now, 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

My grandmother was always into something as a hobby. As many things as she collected, worked on or was involved in, I specifically remember the garage being turned into a ceramics storage area. At one time she taught a ceramics class and the garage was her work area. There were so many tools, paint brushes and bottles of paints and glazes, and I mean a lot. 

There was a wooden shelf on one full wall of their circa-1925 home’ single car garage. This shelf had all kinds of ceramics that were in various stages of completeness. 

Ceramics were made from a mold, kiln dried, the mold separated and then paints and glazes were applied before being kiln fired again. It was a process of filling these large square molds, separating, repairing, drying them and finishing them into beautiful pieces of art. Some would get damaged beyond repair. Each person would write their initials on the bottom of their piece when they were done. 

Albeit not my thing, I thought it was pretty cool as a 9-year old to see the process. My grandmother tried to get my brother and I interested in her interest, but we weren’t interested. 

There are many verses in the Bible that mention pottery and the potsherd. Most of the verses talk about the vessel and how God can put the pieces back together or how it can molded from a lump of clay. 

I remember my grandmothers ceramics as i read the verse in Isaiah. I think of the differences of the clay and the potter and the ceramics and the molds. 

We are made in the imagine of God after His likeness. He is our mold. But we are all different. Some of the pieces are still in the mold, some are unpainted and unfinished, some came out of the mold broken and some have been kiln fired and are beautiful. 

My grandmothers shelf was just like this. There were hundreds of pieces on the shelf in various stages of being finished. There were even pieces that got thrown away because they were broken beyond repair. 

My grandmother eventually moved on from this hobby and side hustle to something else. 

God however, continues to work in our lives. He continues to separate the mold, see our needs and provide the things that make us beautiful. All we have to do is make ourselves available to Him. 

As it says in this verse above - “we ALL are the work of thy hand”.  If we can just make ourselves available to God, He can teach us amazing things. 

Remember who’s image you are made in. No matter where we are in life, our struggles or our accomplishments, we belong to God!

Bring Him glory every day. 

“And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭18:4‬ ‭KJV‬‬