FROM TODAY'S READING(6/24/2016)...
I watched a potter at work today – choosing a marl of bluish-grey,
Ugly and dirty, unpromising stuff; he took it, and washed it till he’d got enough to finish the task he’d set for the day.
His foot was steady, his hands were firm, I saw the wheel begin to turn –
faster and faster, it spun on its way, then – all of a sudden he threw the clay. How many years did it take to learn?
With love and patience those hands so skilled, shape up the pot that he has willed. So long ago, before he began, he had in his mind his own special plan and now at last it’s being fulfilled.
He slows down the wheel, and with fingers neat he places his pot in the infinite heat of the oven, so hot that it tempers the pot until tested and tried his work is complete.
Does the pot he now holds bring him pleasure? Will it always be something to treasure? You and I are God’s clay – will we let Him today
mould us to give Him this joy beyond measure?
- Cilla Watkins
Ephesians 2:8-10 (NLT) God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
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