as a potter fashions the clay:
Have you molded us into what we are,
or have we become what we are?
There are good figs and there are bad figs.
Have you created them that way?
Do you punish us for what we are made to be,
or for what we have become through our own devices?
Or are our presumed punishments only
opportunities for revealing your works?
Should we expect the clay to answer such questions?
Perhaps it is enough to understand your commandments.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Jer. 24:1-10
Rom. 9:19-33
John 9:1-17
Selected Verses
Ps. 119:73
Your hands have made and fashioned me;
give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Jer. 24:3
And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
Rom. 9:20
But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”
John 9:3
Jesus answered [his disciples], “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. …”
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