WE ARE CLAY IN THE POTTERS HAND.. “You know, this is just the way God works with each one of us. We too, often find ourselves cracked and broken and God, the master potter, fills the cracks and makes us beautiful. We are never too broken that he cannot repair and fill the broken areas in our life….” Reflection by: Elfrieda Nikkel Anne was a special person in my life. I first met her when I asked her to teach clay modeling to our group of campers at a summer Bible camp. She told me about how she loved her work with clay and how she had just recently purchased a kiln to bake her clay creations. When I asked her how she got started in her work of clay modeling she told me her story. Her son, who was born mentally challenged due to brain damage at birth, had passed away at the age of 15, several months before I met her. She told me how working with the clay had helped her to get through those difficult days of caring for him during those years. Her life had been broken through this difficulty but God had made something beautiful out of her brokenness. While working with the clay God had been at work molding her life and now I was seeing the beauty created by God the master potter. I was delighted when Anne consented to come several times during the camp session to teach the campers the art of clay modeling…. At the end of the craft session we had an assortment of vases, pots and dishes of various shapes and sizes. Anne instructed me to put them in a warm, dry place until she would return for the next lesson…. A few hours before the time of her next craft session I checked my collection of clay pots. To my dismay they were anything but beautiful – almost without exception each one had a crack. I quickly concluded I had chosen the wrong place to store them, so when she returned I apologized for what, to me, seemed like a disaster zone. To my surprise, Anne quietly said, “Oh, that’s okay we can easily repair them”. Then mixing up her clay she began to repair each one. As she worked she said, “You know, this is just the way God works with each one of us. We too, often find ourselves cracked and broken and God, the master potter, fills the cracks and makes us beautiful. We are never too broken that he cannot repair and fill the broken areas in our life….” As we travel the journey of life God gives us the choice to become clay in his hands. As we invite him into our life he lovingly begins his work of molding us and making us into a vessel of honor and blessing. We can come with our cracks and brokenness and he will make something beautiful out of our life. Even when we have made a mess of things, maybe by making wrong choices, God can repair and bring healing so we will display his glory. How encouraging to think that with God we are never too spoiled, too cracked, too broken. With him there is always hope. With him there is always another chance. From thoughts-about-god
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 02:19:48 +0000
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