As my computer resumed from a faulty reboot, the screen
revealed the last website I visited: “Imperfectly Perfect.” a blog I happened
upon. Its title is a good way to describe many Christians.
I was thinking today of the clay on the potter’s wheel
(found many times in Isaiah and Jeremiah). If you’ve been around Christianity
very long you will have heard that analogy. God’s working on a pot with a lump
of clay and flaws are found, so God starts over. He molds it into what He
wishes, and who are we (the clay) to question it?
I had a thought though; what if the clay was baked? Either
in the sun or in an oven, what would the potter (God) do then? Mind you, this
is a thought, not scripture. What would or could He do? I suppose He could pulverize
it. Yet, suppose the potter broke it. Now what use is it? What could come of the
ornate pieces scattered on the ground? I know this is a bunch of conjecture, but
are these pieces useful? Perhaps these pieces are useless by themselves;
however, several broken vessels together can make up a beautiful mosaic: the
body of Christ. Our imperfections are overruled in Christ’s forgiveness at the
cross; we are imperfectly perfect.
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