Text: Isaiah 64:8

Topic: Why God made us

Introduction:

God formed everything the way a potter forms clay.

We are the work of God's hands.

Pottery always tells something about the Potter.

Illustration: A brain surgeon describes the information centers of the brain.

We are all uniquely handmade.

We are made in the image of God to contain the Spirit of Christ.

Illustration: Briscoe tells Beauty School graduates we are all "decorated dust."

Like God, we are eternal, spiritual beings.

Illustration: Briscoe intuitively knew about her sin because God's image was impressed upon her personality.

We search for meaning because we are made in God's image.

We can choose to become vessels fit for God's glory.

Illustration: After clay is it cannot be remade.

Vessels prepared for judgment get harder and harder.

Psalm 139

To be a vessel fit for glory we must be pliable.

Illustration: Reacting to a woman who believed that Christians shouldn't cry, Briscoe wrote about the place of tears in our lives.

To be a vessel fit for glory we must be poised.

To be a vessel fit for glory we must be pure.

1 Corinthians 10:13

Conclusion:

Illustration: Havilland is the finest china because of its final glossed firing.

In heaven, we will be God's finest chinaglorified dust.