Pottery

"But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him."            Jeremiah 18:4


When I was a freshman in High School I dropped out of typing for pottery.  Through the years I wish I had stayed in, but I really enjoyed the pottery class and made some cute stuff.  ;)


It was great to see what I was making take form and become what I was thinking or to be able to start over because it wasn't anything like what I was going for.


The word marred in the Hebrew means: spoiled, corrupt, injured, ruined or rotted.  According to Dictionary.com it means: damage, spoil, render less perfect or useful, disfigure, deface or scar; something has been distorted or internally so severly as to change it's normal qualities, or else that some fault has interfered with its proper development.      


I know that I can think of situations in my life that left a scar, left me feeling useless and not perfect.  Then there are other things that I know changed me from the inside.  It effected how I reacted, acted, trusted, received love or gave love...the list can go on.


God says that He can take this marred, mess of a life and make something new with it.  We are not stuck staying the way we were.  Sometimes I have fought against the changes in my life, I was familiar with the scars.  I knew what to expect from the walls I put up.  


If our goal is be whole and like Jesus then we need to allow God to take things away that we may be comfortable with.  Change is not easy, but we can trust in our Potter to mold us and make into what He sees us to be.  


I pray that whatever changes God brings into your life as He is "unmarring" you, that  you stay moldable in His Hands.  


Have a fab day!
All my love ~ 
Jodi xoxo