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Have you ever watched a potter creating something on a potter’s wheel? Warning: it’s a messy process! The wet mud is slung out on all sides as the wheel turns, but if you watch closely enough you can see the magic that is in the potter’s hands. With subtle movements they create works of incredible beauty, some of which sell for hundreds of dollars later. Once their work is finished, they put it in a kiln where it is fired and its shape is fixed, forever. Aren’t you glad that God doesn’t deal with us like that? The Bible says to “grow in grace” and once you have been born again God expects for you to show growth and change as you learn to walk in Christ and as you mature as a born-again believer. Jeremiah talks in the 18th chapter of the same book about a potter making a vessel on the wheel and when it was “marred” (damaged or disfigured), he remade it into a good vessel. How do you grow in grace, you ask? A good start is to focus on learning God’s will for your life. I can’t hear God speak, you say? Then make a daily practice of reading the Bible, the one book inspired by God and the one book with enough instruction in it for every conceivable situation in your life. Read the first 4 books of the New Testament to read about the life of Jesus – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Read a chapter in Proverbs that corresponds to today’s date – the 18th chapter for the 18th of the month, for example. (There are 31 chapters in Proverbs, one for each day of the month.) Work on your prayer life with God too. Don’t just pray to God when you’re in need or when you have problems – that’s what whiny children do! But make it a regular habit and practice to talk to God often during each day, making sure that you don’t forget to thank Him for the good things and the small things in your life. Find a good church and become a regular attendee. Be more than a “Sunday only” member – get involved, find a job and do it with passion and energy, and God will bless you! The fellowship of other believers will help you to grow, to mature and to smooth out those “mars”, or blemishes, that we all have in our temperament and personalities. God loves you, and He has something beautiful for your life – IF you will let Him work you on his potter’s wheel. Are you fixed and rigid, like those works that have been fired? Or are you willing to trust God to work you until you are one of the beautiful works of His creation?
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