Vessels of Honour

O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?
Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
(Romans 9:20-21) 

These verses show that we are not to dispute with our Maker, nor to reason with Him as to why He does not give as much grace to one as to another.

Because the whole lump of our clay is vitiated by sin, it is owing to

• His goodness and mercy that He makes out of it a vessel of honour 
• His justice that it be made into a vessel of dishonour in punishment of unrepented sin