Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Be Like Clay

Some He blesses and makes great,
Some He sanctifies and draws to himself.
Others he curses and brings low,
And expels them from their place.
Like clay in the hands of a potter,
To be molded according to his pleasure,
So are men in the hands of their Creator,
to be assigned by Him their function.
As evil contrasts with good, and death with life,
So are sinners in contrast with the just;
See now all the works of the Most High;
They come in pairs, the one the opposite of the other.
Sirach 33:12-15

You never really know what God is going to do. But He really likes to work with this pairing. There was Eve, and her opposite was Mary. Jesus & Satan, Peter and Judas (one betrayed and came back, the other hanged himself), etc.

Sometimes God gives you a string of good things, or bad things, and its hard to adjust when He switches it off on you.

The key is to be malleable – clay only works well if its moist and wet, so that it can be shaped on the potter’s wheel.

It’s hard to surrender. That’s when it’s helpful to go back to basics. Re-establish your relationship with God & the Trinity. Build it up without pretenses. Let God be God, Jesus your Savior, and the Holy Spirit your Advocate. Anything else that He wants to be in your life will come from Him – and no one else.

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