What do you answer when you are asked~
HOW ARE YOU?
Are you~
Just Fine
or
Just Good~
Just because that is easy to say?
HOW ARE YOU~REALLY?
I have a new answer
to
HOW ARE YOU?
TRANSFORMING
Yup
TRANSFORMING
As I am the
Clay
in the Palms of my
FATHER'S hands~
"GOD knew what HE was doing from the very beginning.
HE decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love HIM
along the same lines as the life of HIS SON" (Romans 8:29)
Does it hurt?
At times yes~
Oh the
Stretching & the Spinning.
The worse is the
Firing in the kiln
when the temperature gets so hot
that you wonder when will it stop.
But then
in
HIS Perfect Timing
I am pulled out
Better than before~
a
newer version of a clay pot~
"Yet you, LORD are our FATHER. We are the clay, you are the POTTER;
we are all the work of YOUR Hand" (Isaiah 64:8)
A perfect pot?
Oh no, as this is just the beginning
because
this pot will get cracked,
yet it is still
HIS Perfect Pot~
"For we are GOD'S masterpiece. HE has created us anew in CHRIST JESUS" (Ephesians 2:10).
and I say
"Thank YOU for making me so wonderfully complex!
YOUR workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it" (Psalm 139:14).
So I ask again~
HOW ARE YOU?
Are you on spinning, being stretched or in the firing stage?
However you are,
you are
HIS Perfect Pot~
Clay in HIS Hands
as
GOD continues to
"cause everything to work together for the good of those
who love GOD and are called according to HIS purpose for them" (Romans 8:28)
HIS Perfect Cracked Pot
Filled to the brim
with
HIS SON~
"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this
all-surpassing power is from GOD and not from us" (2 Corinthians 4:7).
GOD'S
TRANSFORMING
power
working in
Our Clay Pots
that will never get so cracked that they crumble~
"We are
hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned;
struck down, but not destroyed" (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).
So
Let's enjoy the ride on the
Potter's Wheel
because
HOW ARE YOU~
Perfect
in the
Palms of
YOUR POTTER'S HANDS~(listen below)