Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 351
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing … In the Hands of the Potter … poignantly singing of how we, as disciples of Christ, are being remade, from our brokenness to beauty in the Hands of the Master Potter.
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Highlight Passage: … Psalm 31:12 [NLT] …
12 I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot. </i>
… David feels like - and sings - like he has been set aside like broken pottery.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 31:12-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David at times felt like broken pottery; and so in this moments, as he does in this psalm, the King turned to God as the Eternal Potter to repair his brokenness.
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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 64:8 [NLT] …
8 And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by Your hand.
… Isaiah shows that our God and we are the clay in His hands.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 18:6 [NLT] …
6 “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.
… God, speaking to Israel, thru Jeremiah, shows that He, the LORD, is the potter and we are his clay.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 4:7 [NLT] …
7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure.This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
… God, thru Paul, shows fellow Christians that we are fragile, like jars of clay and subject to the Hands of the Potter, … i.e., God’s Spirit.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] …
10 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..
… God, thru Paul, shows believers that we were created and fashioned by God’s hands for His purposes and His glory.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] …
6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
… Paul teaches fellow Christians that God, as the Master Potter, is remaking us day-by-day into our Lord’s image.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder, AT THIS LINK … relates a story of being a part of an archeological dig where many broken pieces of broken pottery were uncovered and reassembled and fashioned by assembly and regaling into the beautiful pieces of 1st Century usable pottery, inspiring the faith of those working on the dig.
And any time I read Bible references about God being the Potter and we being the clay in the Old and New Testaments (see Scriptures above), I think of the Japanese art form of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is reassembled and glued with gold to produce very usable and beautiful pieces of pottery art (see photo). And the Kintsugi art form, at least for me, beautifully illustrates how God is the Master Potter of our lives, taking our brokenness and refashioning us into beautiful pieces of pottery, recreated in Christ’s image and used for God’s glory.
What are we doing to surrender ourselves today into the Hands of the Master Potter, allowing Him to reshape us into His image?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for refashioning me into Your image … day by day by day.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to surrender ourselves into Your Hands, Lord, as the Master Potter, remaking us into Your image. … Amen
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