{"id":3450,"date":"2017-02-23T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2017-02-23T08:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:37:10","slug":"clay-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/clay-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(253,254,255);color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:17.6px;\">&#8220;House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?&#8221;&#8211;this is the LORD&#8217;s declaration. &#8220;Just like clay in the potter&#8217;s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel. &#8211; Jeremiah 18:6<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#001320\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">Clay exists to make the invisible&#8230;visible.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#001320\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">It exists to be thrown, squeezed, spun, burnt, and pounded over and over again, until it has been transformed into what the Potter has in mind.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#001320\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">Clay does not exist to give its opinion on the process. It doesn&#8217;t even exist to help the Potter in the process. Instead, clay exists to just submit to the process of transformation in the hands of the Potter.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#001320\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">Clay exists to have its true potential fully released by the expert hand of the Potter.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">God is the Potter. You are the clay.&nbsp;<\/span><font color=\"#001320\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:17.6px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);\">And you exist for God to shape you into the amazing, awe-inspiring <i>Who<\/i> that He created you to be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b&#8220;House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?&#8221;&#8211;this is the LORD&#8217;s declaration. &#8220;Just like clay in the potter&#8217;s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel. &#8211; Jeremiah 18:6 Clay exists to make the invisible&#8230;visible. It exists to be thrown, squeezed, spun, burnt, and pounded over and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/clay-exists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clay exists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}