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The
Potter’s
Wheel
Spinning
around
on the
potter’s
wheel
Makes me
dizzy
and very
weak,
But I
wouldn’t
be here
at all
If,
instead
of being
proud,
I’d been
meek.
Just a
marred
piece of
His clay
Was what
God saw
in me.
But it
seemed
that I
was
doing
all
right
As far
as I was
able to
see.
You
know--living
a good
moral
life,
Every
day or
so doing
a good
deed.
After
all, I’m
a good
upright
citizen.
What
else
could I
possibly
need?
But the
Master
Potter
took His
conviction
hammer,
And with
it took
me all
apart.
He put
me back
on His
spinning
potter’s
wheel;
With
Grace
made a
vessel
with a
brand
new
heart.
“Breaking
up” is
hard to
do. We
hug our
broken
hearts,
and
won’t
let them
go. We
say “No”
to any
efforts
to be
reconstructed
according
to the
Master
Plan,
because
it
just
doesn’t
just fit
into our
carefully
designed
program.
We
feel we
can
finally
get it
all
together
and make
our
dreams
come true. All we need to do is work at it a little harder,
be more
persistent
and
harden
to the
knocks
life
gives
us.
The
truth is
that the
longer
it takes
God to
“hammer”
conviction
into us,
the
harder
the
hammer
has to
strike.
Every
time we
resist when the Holy Spirit pulls our heartstrings, the harder
our
shell
becomes.
We have
to make
a
decision
every
single
time He
tugs:
Either
we
surrender
or we
resist.
It is
impossible
to
resist the Love of God without hardening our hearts. Layer upon layer we
allow
the
plaque
of
resistance
to build
until
that
loving
Whisper
has to
become a
Pneumatic
hammer
to reach
us.
The
Potter
wants to
take the
broken
pieces
of the
marred
vessel,
put it
back on
His
spinning
wheel
and
sculpt a
beautiful
vase
that can
be
filled
with His
Spirit
to be
used for
His
purpose.
One of
the most
awesome
scriptures
in the
Bible is
2
Corinthians
4:7 (NKJV),
“But we
have
this
treasure
in
earthen
vessels,
that the
excellence
of the power may be of God and not of us.” Even though He
knows
all the
attributes
and
attitudes
of the
“vessel,”
He
chooses
to fill
it with
His
Treasure,
His Holy
Spirit
and all
His
benefits!
That’s
awesome!
Jeremiah
was
given an
object
lesson
when God
sent him
down
to the
potter’s
house
(chapter
18). He
observed
how the
potter
did not
discard
the
marred
vessel,
but
broke it
and
continued
to work
with it
to
fashion
it into
a
useable
vessel.
Jeremiah
could
see what
God
wanted
to do
with
straying
Israel.
He
didn’t
want
to
discard
them; in
fact,
Jeremiah
noticed
that,
though
marred,
they
were
still in
God’s
hand!
What a
revelation
that is
to us!
We are
willful,
we
stray,
we
resist
God when
He wants
to break
us and remake us; but He still holds us in His hand while He
woos us
to
repentance.
We are
not
refuse
to Him.
He still
sees
value in
us.
In
Hosea’s
admonition
to God’s
people
(Hosea
10:13),
he saw
that
they had
plowed
wickedness,
reaped
iniquity
and
eaten
fruit of lies, “Because you trusted in your own way.” Though
God
called
them to
repentance
repeatedly,
they
went
their
own
way and
the
“plowed
field”
that God
had
broken
up lay
fallow,
uncultivated
and
without
seed.
Hosea
called
for them
to
“break
up the
fallow
ground,”
cultivate
it,
plant so
they
could
reap
a good
harvest.
Isn’t
that
what God
is
calling
His
people
to do
today?
He has
sent
conviction,
broken
our
hearts
even as
we
resisted
and has
sent many voices of warnings to turn back to Him and allow the Potter to
fashion
vessels
that
will be
filled
with his
“Treasure.”
Let us
give God
our
marred,
broken
vessels
and
become
pliable
in His
Masterful
hands.
He will
fill us
with His
Treasure,
not to sit on shelves to be displayed but to be poured out on
others
who also
need to
be
broken
and
filled.
We need
never
fear that our supply will run out. There will be a continual
inflow
of this
Treasure
to
replenish
our
supply.
If we
continue
reading
the rest
of Hosea
18, we
see the
undesirable
consequences
of
holding
onto our
brokenness,
living with condemnation and guilt; but His love is still in force to
break
our
rebellion
and
reshape
us after
His
image.
Our
Potter
desires
to
remake
us into
a “work
of art”
for His
Kingdom.
God
wants
America
and all
the
world to
be whole
and
healed,
and not
just as
nations
but also
as
individuals
who will
be
holders
and
dispensers
of His
Treasure.
May our
prayer
be,
“God,
break
us, mold
us and
fill
us!” He
will.
Delores
Adams
June
13,2003
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