We have a pinch hitter this week for our Sunday morning reflection...Pastor Ed has stepped in to write about our worship service this week.
Sunday’s worship theme was “God as the Potter.” Jim Anderson, local potter and United Methodist pastor spoke about how we are clay in the hands of the potter. Many folks remarked how refreshing it was to hear a good sermon for a change.
As Jim formed and shaped a piece of clay on his potter’s wheel, he talked to us about how God does the same to us. Yet we, as pieces of clay, are always wanting to be something (or someone) other than we are. We wonder why God made us this way. Romans 9:20-21 says, “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes, and some for common use?” That is when it became personal for me. All of my life, I have asked God, “Why did you make me like this?” I wore braces for 4 years as a teenager; trying straighten my teeth. At the same time, I wore a back brace to straighten my spine. I am very nearsighted and have worn glasses since the third grade. To top it off, believe it or not; I am horribly shy and introverted. Why did God make me like this?
Jim said to us, “God has, in you, some way of revealing Himself to the world, that only you can do. It may be the thing about yourself that you are most unhappy about, that will help reveal to someone else in this world, something about God, about who he is and what he can do.” So what is it about you that you wish you could change? It may be that very thing that God will use to reveal himself to someone else.
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