In Jeremiah 18, God tells Jeremiah to go to the potter's house. When he gets there he sees the potter working a jar. When he saw the way the jar was forming, he didn't like it so he started again and made it into a beautiful jar. God then asks Jeremiah, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?"
God isn't just talking about the nation of Israel here. He is talking about all of us.I'm not much of an artist, so I don't know much about sculpting, but I do know that you put the clay on the wheel and spin it while constantly using your hands to shape it into what you want it to be. We all started out as dust. God just added a little water, and sculpted us out of the dust. Pretty much, we are a lump of clay and God is constantly shaping us. He constantly has His hands on us, pushing us, pulling us, making us into something beautiful.
I love this imagery of us being the clay and God being the Potter. It is really cool if you think about it. Let's say you're going through something really rough. You just feel like you can't last much longer. I just think about that and see God pushing the clay until it is really thin, like about to rip. It is one of those refining seasons. Let's say you have done something and you are just on top of the world. You are just the biggest and baddest person around. God sees that and He says, "Well, that isn't quite what I intended." So, he tears you down, or takes all of it away and starts over again. After all of that refining He has made you into something beautiful and what He intended for you to look like all along.
Just think about this next time something doesn't go your way. Maybe it wasn't what the Potter wanted you to look like, or it wasn't in His will for you. But always remember that even if something doesn't go your way there is always a Light at the end of the tunnel, and the Potter is constantly shaping you to get there.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Kony 2012
If you haven't watched the Kony 2012 video, it is fantastic and you should watch it. Just go to Youtube and search "Kony 2012" and it should be the first result.
I love what these people are doing. They are taking something that they care about, and making sure the word gets out that this kind of injustice is still in the world. What Joseph Kony is doing is wrong and it is ridiculous that it has taken this long to get the word out about him.
One thing that these people said in their video is that it was their goal to "Make Joseph Kony famous." A friend of mine retweeted Katie Davis today, and she said, "I say, let's make Jesus famous." That has been on my mind a lot today. You know, maybe if Jesus was famous, this guy wouldn't be doing this kind of stuff to children, or at least it wouldn't have lasted as long as it has. Maybe if Jesus was famous, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Maybe if Jesus was famous, the holocaust wouldn't have happened. We can't keep our minds in the past, but what we can do is look at the past and learn from it. Then we have to look forward to make sure nothing like these tragedies will ever happen again. Jesus could have stopped any of this if He wanted to, but you know what I think He is doing? I think He is giving us opportunities to make Him famous, and us being our worldly selves try to make others famous. So through this, I say let's make Jesus famous. We are called to be witnesses everywhere (Acts 1:8), so let's do it, and by doing it, make Him famous.
Make Jesus famous.
I love what these people are doing. They are taking something that they care about, and making sure the word gets out that this kind of injustice is still in the world. What Joseph Kony is doing is wrong and it is ridiculous that it has taken this long to get the word out about him.
One thing that these people said in their video is that it was their goal to "Make Joseph Kony famous." A friend of mine retweeted Katie Davis today, and she said, "I say, let's make Jesus famous." That has been on my mind a lot today. You know, maybe if Jesus was famous, this guy wouldn't be doing this kind of stuff to children, or at least it wouldn't have lasted as long as it has. Maybe if Jesus was famous, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Maybe if Jesus was famous, the holocaust wouldn't have happened. We can't keep our minds in the past, but what we can do is look at the past and learn from it. Then we have to look forward to make sure nothing like these tragedies will ever happen again. Jesus could have stopped any of this if He wanted to, but you know what I think He is doing? I think He is giving us opportunities to make Him famous, and us being our worldly selves try to make others famous. So through this, I say let's make Jesus famous. We are called to be witnesses everywhere (Acts 1:8), so let's do it, and by doing it, make Him famous.
Make Jesus famous.
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