Isaiah 64:8
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
God’s work is us, people, His children. All that He and Jesus Christ do point to their desired end result: immortality and eternal life of man, people. They work endlessly toward this end. Just like a potter molds and shapes clay into various forms of pottery, God desires to mold and shape us into the people He wants us to be, the type of person prepared and qualified to inherit the highest heaven of the Celestial world, exaltation, even eternal life in the future.
God doesn’t force us to do right or wrong; he gives us our agency and leaves our choices entirely up to us to choose as we see fit. We can choose but we cannot choose the consequences of our choices. We know that it is our choices that will determine what our eternal destiny will be. As Thomas S. Monson said, “Decisions Determine Destiny.” Our decisions determine whether or not we gain eternal life, the life that God lives. If we turn to the Lord and submit our selfish ways unto doing His will, He can and will be the potter He wants to be and mold us, like clay, into the people He knows we are capable of becoming, the person with Christ-like qualities that will bring us happiness not only now but eternal joy and happiness in the hereafter. Trust in God and let Him shape you into the man or woman that is achieving self-fulfillment, becoming the person who will be spiritually fit and spotless at the judgment bar, ready to enter into exaltation. The molding will require that we be tried, tested, and refined. But it is worth the experience.
How will the molded clay turn out? How will we turn out in the end? Father knows best; therefore, turn your whole soul over to Him and let Him mold and shape us as He deems necessary and desirable. He possess perfect foresight, and we do not. Trust in Him, and become the person He wants us to become.
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