Happy are they who can use this language; - who have renounced the mad enterprise of fashioning themselves, and, ceasing to play presumptuously the part of potter, have come to the original Author of their being, that he may create them anew in righteousness and true holiness. Even Christians are sometimes long in understanding what part they are to play in the divine laboratory. The idea of the divine agency in the transformation of their souls, is shadowy; that of their own obligation, painfully distinct. Let them learn to use the language of Israel of old. " Thou art the potter, and we are the clay." There is no more sublime function of the Godhead, none that more inapproachably exalts him above all created efficiency, than the metamorphosis of unholy souls. It were a less preposterous thing for us to undertake to create a globe like this, and find a planetary path for it, than to dream of substituting the similitude of angels for that of devils, in our characters. It is not merely the love of God, but also his power, that challenges the praises of the universe for the accomplished work of redemption (Revelation 5:13.) " But, the clay has no volition of its own." True. But it is a fact, whether it be a doctrine or not, and a fact that we ought not to be so long in learning as we mostly are, that our own volitions utterly fail of themselves to effect the purification of our natures. It is God that worketh to will and to do, of his good pleasure. " Thou art our potter.' What words of tender confidence are these. What a representation of God. Our potter, - mine, yours. He has taken up this as his vocation, - namely, the redemption and glorification of your nature, and of mine. Between your soul and God there is a wonderful relation established. All nature looks on in admiration, to see the Creator at work upon the clay of your soul. The sculptor is not more enchained to the marble he is employed in chiseling, nor the gardener to the spot which he is converting into a garden.

A daily devotional written by a Baptist Missionary to India, Reverend George Bowen (1816-1888) over 150 years ago.

Bowen's Daily Meditations

"  We are the clay, and thou our potter." - Isaiah 64:8. 

O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are the potter. We all are formed by Your hand. (Isaiah 64:8 NLT)

We are in the Lord’s hands, and being in His 
hands we are in the hands of a Potter Who knows what He is after... first of all, the vessel is in the potter, and then 
eventually the potter is in the vessel. What we mean is this, that before ever 
the potter starts, the vessel is in his mind, in his heart very clearly. The 
pattern is not something objective, the vessel is already a complete thing in 
him; and then he gets to work upon it and when he is finished, he is in the 
vessel he has wrought. What was in Him has come out in it. We say of 
people’s work: “I can see who made that, it is just like them.” “That is just 
like So-and-so to make a thing like that.” Yes, He is in His work, He is in the 
vessel that He makes, and that is just what He is doing. Sometimes that clay has 
to be pressed down to a shapeless mass, broken. It is not showing all that He 
intended it to show, there are defects and flaws, and so He crushes it down to 
shapelessness. A mass without shape. But it is to start again to get something 
more perfect than has been before, in which He Himself is.
May He give us grace to endure whatever the 
trial may be, along whatever line of metaphor, the wind, the blaze, supreme 
heat, or pressure of His hand, all of which is to get us into a place where we 
cannot be moved, where hell cannot shake us, where His power is made manifest as 
triumphant over all the power of the enemy.

This devotional contains short daily portions from a selection of Mr. Austin-Sparks' messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” Open Windows messages have been selected and compiled by Austin-Sparks.Net from the works of T. Austin-Sparks. In some cases they appear in abridged form. The introductory verse and its associated Bible version have been selected by the editor and did not always appear within the original message.

Open Windows

Rooted and Grounded

 The Potter in the Vessel 

Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though they join forces, none will go unpunished. O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. Do not be furious, O Lord, nor remember iniquity forever; indeed, please look—we all are Your people! § You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are the Lord my God. Surely, after my turning, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. § It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground; yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. 

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. § O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. § It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him. § Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver. § Whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. § It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. § Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. But rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. § These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Evening Daily Light

 Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? 

8 <poetry>耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！ 我们是泥，你是窑匠； 我们都是你手的工作。</poetry>

耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！ 我们是泥，你是窑匠； 我们都是你手的工作。

以赛亚书 64:8

 8 耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！ 我们是泥，你是窑匠； 我们都是你手的工作。

新标点和合本（英语：Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation，缩写：CUNP 或 CUVNP）于1988年出版，由联合圣经公会组织圣经学者、翻译顾问和编辑人员，以《和合本》为基础展开修订。《新标点和合本》在用语和文体上基本没有改动[1]。目前香港圣经公会销售的中文圣经，主要也是以《新标点和合本》和《和合本修订版》为主[2]。1988年《新标点和合本》与1919年《和合本》的关系，就像是1769年《钦定版圣经》与1611年《钦定版圣经》，前者更新了拼写与标点，使之和现代一致。


新标点和合本

 耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！ 我们是泥，你是窑匠； 我们都是你手的工作。

Isaiah 64:8

<poetry>耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！ 我们是泥，你是窑匠； 我们都是你手的工作。</poetry>

每日经文

2025年11月20日

以赛亚书 64:8 CUNPSS

Verse by Verse Bible Study

More on the web

品牌集团