- Jeremiah 18: 4 And it is not easy to put it on to the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.
Most church & # 39; s have stained glass windows and we sit and admire the most church 's stained glass windows at times. beauty, never thinking about the process of using broken pieces to create such a work of art.
The pieces of glass laying there without shape or form may look similar to a pile of broken glass, but to the artist it & # 39; s the start of a beautiful work of art, something that will have meaning and be expected by many, and that is how God sees us, as a thing of beauty waiting to take form for the whole world to see and admire His handy work.
When god spoke to Jeremiah He told him to arise and go He to announce His words to him. When Jeremiah arrived at the potter s house he saw the potter making something on the I have broken, or not right, messed up like our lives have been at times, so the potter remade it into another vessel and it pleased "The Iron of like the clay in the potter", "hand I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as the potterance?" declares the LORD. so are you in my hand ".
No matter how broken our lives may seem or what we may have done in our past, God can and the fix with it, He is our potter and just as the potter takes what is not right and reforms it, God will do the same with us God was broken pieces to fit into our lives to fit His will to we give it, God said "Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as the potter does?" God was Saying, you may be broken at this time, but if you will surrender to Me, I can shape you and make you into a thing of beauty.
Some of our lives consist of broken family. I love could have imagined that God could shape me into anything other than the mess that I was. Depression was taken over my life for so many years, anger and hate was my best friend, my life was like the start of a stained glass window, a pile of shard glass.
My grandmother and grandmother raised me and tried to shelter me from his drunken rage, but living next door made things hard for them. After my death of my grandmother in 1973 it felt as if my life was over my home afterwards my father would come home drunk my grandmother would take me and head into the wooded area. The person who I knew as a dad, my protector, my world, was now gone, and the abuse became much worse.
Over the years my fathers abuse grew stronger and as a teenager he even tried to take my life several times. The rage from my father became a part of me, I was getting into fights and taking out my rage on others the way my father vented I became broken and the older I became the more broken I became, my life was a mess and I hated my life, I hated the world, and I was ticked at God for my childhood.
Just like the starting process of of Jesus, took those broken pieces and started shaping them, He took all the broken pieces of my past and started bringing them together The broken process is a painful process but also a necessary process, The brokenness allowing the master artist to rearrange or discard the pieces of our lives that do not fit into his work of art. pride, the self center-ness, the anger, the hate, was some of the things that has to be discarded in reshaping of our lives.
When an artist paint a picture or creates a stained glass window, it is created in a way that tells a story. The brokenness of our past is the same with God our master artist, He takes these broken pieces of our past and places them together A master artist can create a singing out of nothing, they have a vision that no one else can see, and God has a vision and a plan for our lives that only He can see.
Moses grew up in the home of Pharaoh, raised by Pharaoh & # 39; s daughter as her own son, and taught as an Egyptian., He lived a privileged. The man who was was a Prince has been broken and God (Momes went from the house of Pharaoh, privacy in the house of Pharaoh, to a life of hiding and tending to the flock of his father-in-law in the land of Midian. from the brokenness, will bring forth a Prophet and a leader, that will free his people from years of bondage and lead them into the land of promise.
It is reshaping process at times the hardship and pains of others to good understand how to relate to their problems or needs. I have never been drunk or done drugs, but I have been able to have drugs, but I have been able to enlighten others. he could better understand the suffering of his people, he could see what they endured each day, but as long as he lived the life of a Prince he would never fully understand the true depth of their suffering.
My grandmother would always be tell me "never judge the life of another until you have walked a mile in their shoes.
God sometimes has to follow until we have a long period of time to be re-broken. Our way of thinking can be self-centered, we forget to place ourselves in another person shoes because of our length of time as a Christian Just as the potter will respond to the pot, will not a horse Just as a horse that has not hidden in a while will sometimes become suburban and refuse to be mounted, the horse We will have a be broken again and we as Christian are different, and when that happens God breaks us, to shape us.
God is a master artist, He is the potter and we are the clay, if we surrender our lives to Him, He will take it the broken pieces of our lives and create a work of art. God does not waste anything and He never makes a If you ever start to wonder why things are happening the way they are in your life they stop, think and the brokenness, He will take my past and use it to the stain glass window and remind yourself that it started on broken, but in the right hands became something to admire.
