https://odb.org/MY/2022/01/24/the-potters-wheel
We have often heard of the analogy of the Potter and the Clay to describe God shaping our lives as it’s an analogy that God uses in Jeremiah 18 to describe how He shapes Israel. It didn’t matter that the clay was marred, God is able to reshape it into something beautiful. We also know that even broken pieces may be made beautiful again as God remakes and reshapes our broken lives. Of course the key to all that is our willingness to be clay, to be reshaped by God into the sculpture He wants us to be.
I think the message today is that this Potter and Clay relationship is a continuous one. It is not a one off situation at the time we accepted Christ where God took our brokenness and made us into a new creation. It is instead a continuous relationship of God shaping us over the years from the day we first knew Him until the day we die. That means more and more of our broken lives or more and more of our brokenness will be made new by God as we let Him work in us. The fact that God is the master Potter is undeniable. The fact that God will want to shape and mould us into something beautiful, into something He is proud of is without doubt. He is God. He is LORD. Through Christ, He sees past our sins and will mould us into becoming more like Christ in our character and thinking that we may be more Christ like in all that we do and think. The question today is whether we are willing to allow God to continue working in our lives, turning more of our brokenness into beautiful sculptures? Are there areas in our lives that are still inaccessible by the Spirit of God, that we have kept hidden and locked away? We already know that we cannot hide from God for He knows all things and yet there are things in the past that we are still unwilling to face up with God.
I just like to encourage everyone today that God remains our Potter and we remain the Clay even if we have been at this for many years. The LORD is still actively working at moulding and shaping us even after all these years. Will we open up more of ourselves to Him? Or else we may be beautiful in parts but not in whole. Allow God full access to our lives that He may reshape and mould every aspects of our lives. Let Him make a complete work out of us!
Ronnie's Thoughts 