The Mother of the Son
Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”? Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?” or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?” Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker: Will you question me about my children or command me concerning the work of my hands? I made the earth and created humankind upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. Isa. 45:9–12 The heart of the evangelist’s message does not have to do with the problem and existence of evil or explaining humanity’s present condition; it concerns the miracle of its transformation, the gift of salvation, of good wine, of truth, of faith, and of the authentic knowledge of God in the midst of falsity, darkness, unbelief, and anxiety. Paul W. Meyer, The Word in This World: Essays in New Testament Exegesis and Theo...