Help us, O Almighty Father, in patience to posses our souls. Behold, we are the clay, and thou art the Potter. Let not the thing formed say to him that formed it, whatever the dispensations of thy future Will concerning us may be, Why dost thou deal with us thus? Behold, we put ourselves as blanks in thine hands, deal with us as seemeth good in thy sight, only let every cross, ever affliction, every temptation, be overruled to the stamping thy blessed image in more lively characters on our hearts; that so passing from glory to glory, by the powerful operations of they blessed Spirit, we may be made thereby more and more meet for, and at last be translated to a full, perfect, endless, and uninterrupted enjoyment of glory hereafter, with thee O Father, thee O Son, and thee O blessed Spirit; to whom, three persons but one God, be ascribed, as is most due, all honor, power, might, majesty and dominion, now and to all eternity. Amen and Amen.
— George Whitefield
Cited from “Sermon 13: The Potter and the Clay,” in Selected Sermons of George Whitefield (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1999).
This is a prayer for us all to petition the Lord. Oh, that we can be like clay in the hands of God to be molded into a glorious vessel of honor for everlasting enjoyment with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
George Whitefield (1714–1770), itinerate preacher, evangelist, and Church of English minister, had significant influence in New England’s Great Awakening. Whitefield also collaborated with John and Charles Wesley with the starting of the “Holy Club” at Oxford in the 1720s. Whitefield was truly a magnificent herald of the gospel.
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