* A hymn that talks about our being the clay and God the potter is "Have Thine Own Way, Lord"
The text was written by Adelaide Addison Pollard, who was born Nov. 27, 1862, into the Presbyterian family of James and Rebecca Pollard. After attending the Denmark Academy , she taught in several girls’ schools. she was a talented writer of both prose and poetry and produced many religious articles and hymns.
Miss Pollard’s main interest was sharing God's love. Throughout her life, her frail body was plagued with weakness caused by diabetes, but she travelled all over the United States and spoke to numerous groups about Bible teaching.
In 1902, at the age of forty and still single she made plans to go to Africa as a missionary teacher under the leadership of a man named Sanford. When she was on the verge of preparing to sail, at the last minute her funding failed and she was forced to cancel her trip.
The discouraged woman attended a prayer meeting and while sitting quietly heard someone make the following statement: "It’s all right, Lord! It doesn’t matter what you bring into our lives. Just have your own way with us." Thinking about these words on her way home, she put the hymn on paper before retiring that night.
After failing to go to Africa, Adelaide taught for several years in a missionary training school at Nyack-on-the-Hudson, NY. However, when she was nearly sixty, she did make a short trip to Africa just prior to World War I, but with the outbreak of hostilities she was sent to work in England and Scotalnd.
After the war, she returned to America and resumed her speaking tours, despite failing health. On Dec. 20, 1934, at the age of 72, she became ill while waiting to board a train in New York City, NY, to go to a speaking engagement in Philadelphia, PA, and died soon afterward that same day. Her body was buried at Ft. Madison in her native state of Iowa, not far from her hometown.
Too many people spend their whole lives pursuing their own goals and doing what they want to do rather than taking time to seek what God would have them do. But the Christian’s life must be one of complete submission to the will of God. And this attitude is well exemplified by the plea, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord."
The song suggests the way to develop the characteristic of submission to God.
But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8
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നിന്നിഷ്ടം ദേവാ! ആയിടട്ടെ
ഞാനോ മൺപാത്രം നിൻകരത്തിൽ
നിൻപാദത്തിൽ ഞാൻ കാത്തിരിക്കും
നിന്നിഷ്ടംപോൽ നീ മാറ്റുകെന്നെ
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Have Thine own way oh LORD....
ReplyDeleteWe are clay and ur our potter Lord.. Praise the Lord
ReplyDeleteSo encouraging
ReplyDeleteJeremiah 18:1-6 The Potter and the Clay
ReplyDeleteThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
Then the word of the LORD came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.