Worn Out Pots

If I were a computer I would need defragged among other things. If upgrades were my choice, my list would be long. First among them would be a new processor, the latest greatest super computing chip. More storage would be in order too; I could know just about everything then and keep it in order! And of course, I would want as much ram as possible; then multitasking with family, projects, music, and the like could be done with ease and all at once!

If we could do all these things, we could be a god, little G of course; we would fix ourselves when and how we pleased. If I could do all those things to myself, well, could I choose my own operating system and the like? Could I? All of this is nonsense of course. It’s raining outside, I’ve read all I could, played drums (as long as my protected ears could take), and I even tripped over notes playing piano! So, I contemplated all of this, but is it foolishness? We have bodies made by, not just an upgrade mechanic, but the Designer and Creator of everything!

I’m grateful God gave man enough brain processing power to transplant and build a few artificial and salvaged parts that work well. Yet with no offence intended to the medical community; they never work as well as the healthy original parts. The medical field is increasing in knowledge and practice at what seem an exponential rate to an outsider like me. Perhaps one day medicine will find ways to treat sever pain like mine in a non-addictive ways, without side-effects. Or, maybe old surgeries that fail, could one day be corrected.

 Yet, Science in its corrective work will never out pace sins’ ability to afflict. Death came with disobedience to God and its affects will devastate our bodies and earth until sins ends. Our failing bodies are but tents to what God had intended. If you’ve ever had a tent, you know they eventually leak or get moldy and stink. They wear-out and fail as a housing shelter. Even so, with all this we know as believers in Christ's work at Calvary, Jesus gave us the right to be called, “Children of God.” With this comes our heavenly body too and I’m looking forward to that! These thoughts keep me going as a child of God!

Just a moment longer please. I say this because moving on to something else is easier than completing my thought. We are to our computers as God is to humanity. Man or humanity built these boxes we type on. They are complex, but they don’t change out their physical components, at least yet. They are created machines manufactured for us, by us. Similarly, we are like that to God, yet of much greater value. God, our maker had His Son die for us as we crashed and ended up in sin! Oh how He must value us! Even wore-out, with stammering speech He loves me! Even with outdated slow parts, He loves me!

And if that is so, as it is. We should remember this too and keep perspective in life:

“You are confused.
    You think the clay is equal to the potter.
You think that an object can tell the one who made it,
    “You didn’t make me.”
This is like a pot telling its maker,
    “You don’t know anything.”” Isaiah 29:16 NCV

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them.
    They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces.
The clay does not ask the potter,
    ‘What are you doing?’
The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker,
    ‘You have no hands.’” Isaiah 45:9 NCV

We may have abilities and be gifted beyond measure, it’s because He gave it to us. Or, maybe these things are elusive and circumstances are pressing down and pressure's building. Don’t forget:

“God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NCV of course!