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| On the Potter's Wheel |
Prayer: Father, we trust You, we love You, but being on the wheel is painful, even dizzying at times. But please don't take Your precious hands off of us, which nurture and love us, as You mold and make us what You have designed. Please Lord, keep us close to You as we face the refining fires of life from season to season, that we may come forth as a vessel of honor - a masterpiece, for You alone. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen.
"But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our Potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand." Isaiah 64:8 NKJV
The Making of The Potter's Masterpiece:
- Water is applied again and again to saturate the clay.
- Molding is possible, in the Potter's hands as He lovingly handles, forms and holds the clay.
- Heat (firing) is permitted to surround the molded clay - for a season.
- With each heat firing of the clay, the image of Christ gradually begins to form, throughout the seasons of life - in the workshop.
- In perfect Love, a Christ-like masterpiece is completed, which for all eternity, will worship God - at the wedding supper.
"Blessed is the man who endures temptation;
for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life
which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." James 1:12 NKJV
Life Application:
- We allow God's Word, the Water, to daily saturate our hearts, renew our minds, and thereby transform our lives.
- We grow in our relationship with the Potter, in the molding - where we learn His Presence, His touch...His voice. This, is the key step to making it through the next.
- In the surrounding heat of life's tests, trials and pain, we learn what faith in God really is, and it is strengthened. It's in this heat that we come to know the God of the Bible. (The longer I live, the hotter the fire seems to become! :>, what about you?).
- By God's grace and mercy, like clay we DO come out of the heat more beautiful than when we went in.
*We're all in some important stage within the Potter's workshop.
*Father God is with us every step of the process.
*Father has a unique vision for each life even before we were born.
*The experiences in each life are NOT accidental, incidental or wasted; but are fully acknowledged and authorized by our heavenly Father.
*Be encouraged, we'll come forth as 'much more' than pure gold - the Potter's masterpiece!
"if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold
that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor,
and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love."
1Peter 6b-8a NKJV
All for Christ My Lord!
Theresa
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