Day 4: Define me.

26Jan/110

If I really grasped what I looked like in raw clay form I would be more apt to let you work in me Lord. I think I am much more beautiful and useful in my natural form than raw clay, but you know the truth-that only when I allow Him to mold me am I truly worth anything. Without His hands changing me I am formless, and then when I shove Him away after I feel I look a little better I am flawed.

This is what I read today in the bible and I thought it so fitting to what I have been thinking already this week:

¹ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: ² “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” ³ So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. ⁴ But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. ⁵ Then the word of the LORD came to me. ⁶ He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6

When God wants to weed out character flaws, time commitments, or a wrong mindset I am to listen. When He longs to plant seed I am called to allow for it the best habitat of growth in me-not starve it out or throw it aside because of the work involved in the nurturing. It doesn't matter if I don't understand why, or for how long or what the end goal of God is. That is not my concern. I am only to be obedient at his first command, his first touch.

Define me Lord. I can't define myself.