VESSELS OF HONOUR

 

“On 19 December 1841, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles met in the home of the Prophet Joseph Smith. According to the minutes of the meeting kept by Wilford Woodruff, ‘Elder Heber C. Kimball preached of the clay in the hands of the potter, that when it was marred in the hands of the potter, it was cut off the wheel and then thrown back again into the mill, to go into the next batch, and was a vessel of dishonour; but all clay that formed well in the hands of the potter….was a vessel of honour!

Our lives may also be vessels of honour, a work of beauty in the hands of the Master potter, if we will respond to His call, be pliable in His hands, and learn from the things that we suffer.”

-       - Jean A. Tefan, “Jeremiah: As Potter’s Clay”, Ensign Oct 2002, p 11

“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”

-        - Jeremiah 18:6

Let us dear Lord

Sit by Thy furnace of affliction

To warm ourselves by Thy refiner’s fire.

Purge our suffering and polish us as silver

That we might in the end receive our desire;

When Thou wilt come

To gather Thine own

To receive us into Thy bosom,

To carry us home.

 

Thy love for Thy people is beyond compare,

Thy mercy affixed forever more.

Thy power delivers us and

Thy loving kindness gathers us;

We are restored by Thy merciful might,

We are Israel, children of light.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: The Master Potter by Paige Payne)