The Potter and Clay analogy provides instructions for understanding character-building tests and trials in the life-long sanctification process.

In terms of building character, God does the creating, assaying, testing, and proving; we do the yielding and walking in the pathway He has set for us.

God has given us His Law, which shows us the way of sanctification and holiness. God is in the process of reproducing His kind — the God-kind.

The world's religions have attempted to cast Almighty God into their faulty images, crafting an evil and destructive situational ethics.

Time must not be wasted walking into blind alleys and labyrinths, but must be spent walking the paths God has set before us, developing character through our choices.