Isaiah 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Upside Down
The main question in life is not, “Is there a God?” Most people are born with an innate sense and understanding that there is a God. The main question in life is, “Who is this God?” This is a question that every person seeks to answer in some measure. If God is God at all, He is the Creator, not the created. Yet throughout history people have tried to create a god in their image in order to make him say what they want to be so. God is not who I want Him to be, nor does He follow the whims of what men think. God is Who He revealed Himself to be in His Word.
The Bible tells us in Isaiah 29:16, “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He hath no understanding?” God says that for people to argue with God is like a lump of clay arguing with the potter. It is the potter’s place to mold the clay, not the clay’s place to question the potter.
When a person decides he is going to impose his way upon God, he has made himself the creator, creating a god after his own image instead of realizing that he is created in God’s image. We turn things upside down when we seek to create a god who will agree with us.
Any god who would never disagree with you is not a god at all. Do we honestly suppose that God is going to mirror our sensibilities, our values, our priorities, and our plans? If we have such a god, what we have is a creation in our own mind of a super version of us. God is not a man. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours.
We get in trouble when we try to impose our ways upon God and use Him to validate our opinions. We have power when we live in the realization that God made us. When we are simply pliable in His hands, He can make of us something that we could never make of ourselves.