Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide their plans from the LORD,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us? Who will know?”
You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
“He did not make me”?
Can the pot say of the potter,
“He knows nothing”? - Is. 29:15-16 NIV
Woe to all of us. Woe to those who would call ourselves people of faith and woe to those who do not. Woe to all of us. We all think we can hide things from God that he can't see or doesn't see or know, when he knows all. We've built up layers and layers of technology, information, business, entertainment, and possessions that keep us amused and isolated from each other and from God. God is a word we use either casually or in vain, but our lives would seldom indicate that his existence is of any importance.
In truth, we are nothing without him. We're just a lump of clay that has no form or purpose without the potter. We cannot make ourselves; there are no self-made men. Most of us have let ourselves be molded by other things than our creator. Most of us are not the beautiful useful vessels we could have been in the potters hand. And we think that God doesn't notice or care when in truth he sees it all. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are the potter's creation and possession. We belong to him.
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