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(From Forerunner Commentary)
The implication is, "My Father has been working from the beginning, and He's continuing to work." What is Their work? It is creating, creation. God is the Potter, we are the clay. He is the One doing the shaping, the molding, the creating. "It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves." He is the One who is continuing the creation that He began and revealed in Genesis 1. He is still working on us! Continuing the pottery metaphor, the Holy Spirit, then, can be compared to the water that the potter uses to bring the clay to the right consistency to enable him to shape it.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Pentecost and the Holy SpiritRelated Topics: Clay | God's Work | God's Workmanship | Holy Spirit | Potter and Clay Analogy | Water | Water as Analogy | Water as Metaphor | Water as Symbol of God's Holy Spirit | Water Imagery | Water Symbolism | Work | Work Of God | Workmanship, God's
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