Vessels of clay

If you've taken a Ceramics class in your high school, this may make more sense to you.

I'm not sure if you've heard this before, but we as God's children are a lot like clay in a potter's hands. The potter shapes us in an individual way; no two vessels can be completely alike; as people immediately see us on the outside, God immediately sees us on the inside, just as a potter instinctively sees the inside of his creation; God can still shape us in his way if we are pliable; once clay is hardened, it is not pliable, so if we are hard-hearted, we are not pliable, therefore God can no longer 'work' with us.

In a way, we are a lot like a vase made from said potter. Somebody said to me that if a vase has a glow stick inside it and the vase cracks, that light can be poured out to everyone. I don't agree with that. I've seen people so damaged from their past, they don't cast any light. In fact, they may turn away from people, or even show darkness to everyone. That is not to say there is no light in any people; everybody has light in them. I just don't agree with that one thing about how the cracks in us make it easier for us to show the light inside us; I think it's just the complete opposite.