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Friday, November 30, 2012

Imperfectly Perfect


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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