Lumps of Clay

Jeremiah 18:4  But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

The potter takes the lump of clay and slams it onto the wheel. As the wheel turns, his strong hands mold the lump, slowly giving it shape. As the lump turns into a pot, the potter notices that the vessel isn’t just what he wants, it is wider on one side, skinnier on the other. Calmly, he stops the wheel and masses all of the clay back into a lump. The clay is still good, it just got messed up, time to start all over.

We come to Christ and ask him to mold us, to make us new. The problem is that because of life, poor decisions, and outright rebellion our lives have become misshapen. When we turn to Jesus, the Master Potter takes our flawed and broken life and begins molding a new life, a better life.

Sometimes this shaping is uncomfortable. We lose a friend here, or a bad habit there. All the while we can feel the strong hands of the potter making us new, making us into something beautiful.

Without shaping, we are all just lumps of clay. When we allow God to work in us, when we let Jesus mold us, we turn into something extraordinary and one of a kind.

Today’s Readings: Jeremiah 18-20; Psalm 93; John 17

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