The prayer to be like Jesus is heavier than we think. The great Shaper will shape you through your circumstances. There may be rejection, loneliness, wilderness, mockery, persecution, sorrow, tears, weariness and manifold trials. These things, which are often a part of everyone’s life, for you will have a special role in your Jesus-like shaping. In gratitude embrace them all. In the hands of the Shaper these are not destructive tools but constructive ones.
“But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.” Jeremiah 18:4 (NASB)
