The LORD JESUS be magnified!



"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 [KJV]


Until free-will, self-righteousness, creature exertions, and human merit are dried up and withered away, till they all give up the ghost, we can never come into that spot where we are the clay, and God is the Potter. Can the clay make itself into a vessel? Can it mould itself into shape and form? Can it start from its bed, and work itself up into a vessel for use or ornament? No more can we make ourselves fit for glory, or mould ourselves into vessels of honour. If the Lord do but give us the feeling in our souls, our sweetest privilege, our dearest enjoyment, is to be the clay. Free-will, self-righteousness, human wisdom, and creature strength—we give them all to the pharisees; let them make the most of them.

But when the Lord indulges our souls with some measure of access to Himself, and brings us in all humility and brokenness to lie low before His throne, we feel that we are nothing but what He makes us, have nothing but what He gives us, experience nothing but what He works in us, and do nothing but what He does in and for us. To be here, and to lie here, is to be the clay; and to find the Lord working in us holy desires, fervent breathings, secret cries, and the actings of faith, hope, and love; and to feel these things freely given, graciously communicated, and divinely wrought, and to know the Lord is doing all this for us and in us, is to find Him the Potter, and is to be brought to the sweetest, lowliest, and happiest spot that a soul can come into.


-Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802 – 1869 A.D.)

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