I came across a jotting I made from a devotional I had studied about a week ago. It was centered on the clay pot, metaphorically speaking, and it shed a different light or perspective on life.
Now, the potter alone can control the final output that comes out of his precious clay. A broken clay pot never stays broken for long. There are two options available to the potter; to patch it together with its fallen pieces or to completely rebuild.
Let us consider the first option. The clay pot will still carry scars of its fall, even after the potter has worked to put it together again. Think of it as a temporary fix that will affect its beauty.
On the other hand, the second option gives the result of a shiny new pot, devoid of any ugly scars (as the broken one becomes crushed completely.
If we are asked to select either of these two options, it will come as no surprise to see that most of us would prefer the new clay pot. After all, who no like better thing?
For the average potter, he may prefer to patch it back. Granted, this makes his work better, in a way.
But for a potter well invested in his business and has passion and love for it, he would prefer to completely crush the clay pot and rebuild it into something better.
Rebuilding afresh will mean breaking the pot into pieces and painfully passing it through some rigorous process to be remoulded again.
Having this in mind, I realised that the challenges we face today are rigorous processes we need to pass through to become new and better and whole again.
I see God as the Potter who chooses to crush one completely to get rid of the scars of insecurity, pain, disappointments, heartbreaks and to mould us into the best version of ourselves we can be.
This doesn’t mean that the process of the crushing would be easy. This process is that feeling of the weight of the world on your shoulders; that feeling of helplessness and despair. The feeling that all hope is gone and nothing seems to be working out for you. That feeling that makes you wonder if you would not be better off gone.
I bet we have all been there, and some still are at present.
I wish I could say that the crushing period will begin and end at a certain time, but no one has access to that information except the Potter who created you.
All we can do is to pause for a moment and let the Potter do his work to come out with a perfect clay pot – you!
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Love,
Diane
