Remember that the Lord makes all things new, and this includes us.
We come to worship the Lord, not to fashion ourselves according to what we think He might want. We come to worship the Lord, not to assume that we need not change at all. In worship, we present ourselves to God, as clay presents itself to the potter. We need to do this knowing that the Potter is spinning His wheel, and He is doing His work. He does not take the lump we present and place it upon a shelf untouched. Neither does He pretend that the lump is already shaped into a vessel.
He works the clay. And He does so according to His wisdom. We are coming here in worship to surrender the point. We are coming here to let go of our own purposes and plans. We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Clay cannot operate the wheel. Clay cannot pound itself down. Clay cannot shape itself. Clay cannot issue directives to the Potter, urging Him on to greater and greater heights.
But in the providence of God, clay is commanded to present itself before God, in order to be worked. And that is what we are doing here. That is what worship is for. We present ourselves as Isaiah did—Here am I, Lord, send me. We present ourselves as Abraham did, Isaac standing by his side, ready to die.
This is the response of the creature that truly glorifies God. This is the only response that does not try, in some way, to get the clay to act like the Potter.