The Potter’s Hand

Title: The Potter’s Hand

Scripture: “Does the clay say to the potter, what are you making?” – Isaiah 45:9

Many people today feel like a gigantic slab of marble battered and bruised, lacking substance who has been discarded by certain people. But, in the capable hands of the Lord God Almighty, we can be moulded into something beautiful.
A story is told In 1502, in Florence, Italy there was a large block of marble given to a church in Santa Maria, the church immediately hired who they thought was a professional to sculpt this enormously huge piece of rock. The man was a professional and soon after commencing this great task the man drilled a hole right at the bottom destroying this magnificent piece of marble. So, the church decided just to drape a huge sheet over it not knowing what else to do, since it had been damaged beyond recognition and repair. A certain man, named Michelangelo caught word of this large stone and how it has been destroyed, so out of curiosity he went to check it out and thought “Hey, I think I can do something here.” After a time he began work and sculpted; and what was once thought to be a lost cause became one of the greatest statues of the biblical character of David ever built.

[pullquote] Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. – Isaiah 64:8 [/pullquote]Every human is work in progress. There is a divine purpose at work in your life. God is the Master Potter has a way of taking the leftovers and making them something beautiful. He is the potter; we are the clay. He is the shepherd; we are the sheep. He is the Master; we are the servants. No matter how educated we are, no matter how much power and influence we may think we possess, no matter how long we have walked w/ Him, no matter how significant we may imagine ourselves to be in His plans, none of that qualifies us to grasp why He does what He does when He does it and how He chooses to do it. God’s will is a way beyond our understanding, yet it is a way in which we are called to think and live.

Then the LORD God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. – Genesis 2:7

Have you ever noticed that when you try to fix things that you’re not supposed to fix, you find yourself in a deeper mess? I’m reminded of the man who woke up one morning and found a puddle of water in the middle of his king size water bed. Well, he thought, “In order to fix the puncture, I have to take it outside, fill it with more water and locate the leak. What happened is that the bed started rolling on the hill right outside his house and it landed on a clump of bushes that punctured and poked numerous holes in the water bed. Disgusted, he threw it away – as well as the water bed frame. And he spent the next few hours taking his old traditional bed frame back into his bedroom. The next morning, he awoke to find a puddle of water in the middle of his new bed. The upstairs bathroom had a leaky drain.

Sometimes we get frustrated in life when things do not happen on our time table. We must learn trust the potter. He knows what is best and He will see us through.

Be Blessed

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