Beautiful transformation
Saturday 29th September 2018
'We are the clay, and you are the potter.' Isaiah 64:8 NLT
Ever watched a lump of clay being transformed into something beautiful? If the potter wasn't shaping it, the clay wouldn't change. Isaiah says to God, 'We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand' (Isaiah 64:8 NLT). With God shaping us, we're transformed into something even more beautiful than we were before. The things that we struggle with - circumstances, worries, bad habits, temptations - can all be left behind when we let God shape us.
We might feel that we can't change, but that's not true. There's hope and a promise of freedom for us. In Jeremiah 18, God paints the picture of a potter who, when the pot didn't go quite right, reshaped it into something else. That's what God does with us too. When we feel broken or have lost our way, he takes us and reshapes us. All we have to do is place our lives in his hands. Trying to change ourselves only leads to stress because when it doesn't work. We can feel like we've failed.
God wants to gently mould us and help us change permanently. When we surrender our lives to God, true and lasting change can take place. And he won't give up helping us to change, the Bible says: 'He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus' (Philippians 1:6 NIV).
So what now? Think about areas in your life that need 'remoulding'. Hand them over to God to make something beautiful out of.
Saturday 29th September 2018
'We are the clay, and you are the potter.' Isaiah 64:8 NLT
Ever watched a lump of clay being transformed into something beautiful? If the potter wasn't shaping it, the clay wouldn't change. Isaiah says to God, 'We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand' (Isaiah 64:8 NLT). With God shaping us, we're transformed into something even more beautiful than we were before. The things that we struggle with - circumstances, worries, bad habits, temptations - can all be left behind when we let God shape us.
We might feel that we can't change, but that's not true. There's hope and a promise of freedom for us. In Jeremiah 18, God paints the picture of a potter who, when the pot didn't go quite right, reshaped it into something else. That's what God does with us too. When we feel broken or have lost our way, he takes us and reshapes us. All we have to do is place our lives in his hands. Trying to change ourselves only leads to stress because when it doesn't work. We can feel like we've failed.
God wants to gently mould us and help us change permanently. When we surrender our lives to God, true and lasting change can take place. And he won't give up helping us to change, the Bible says: 'He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus' (Philippians 1:6 NIV).
So what now? Think about areas in your life that need 'remoulding'. Hand them over to God to make something beautiful out of.
