Many of us
have never really fit a mold set before us in life. We may
even purposefully break
the mold out of
arrogance, pride and rebellion. Ultimately
though, we haven’t fit a mold because we are not supposed to. A mold is something that is made to make
an object conform to a standard. Read
what the prophet Jeremiah states:
Jeremiah 18:1-6
“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.
God doesn’t work with a molding. He is in a process of constant forming. If God sees an imperfection he will take the clay and start again. He isn’t looking for us to match what others think we should or shouldn’t be. God is working on something bigger. To make us more and more like him. Being in his likeness means we may not fit.
Look at what Isaiah writes about Jesus:
Isaiah 53:2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
People were not drawn to Jesus by his appearance. The religious leader didn’t accept Christ because he wasn’t kingly. Jesus didn’t fit the mold others desired. If that is true, we shouldn’t expect anything different in our lives. So with that understanding, we must stop trying to be what others want and more what God wants. That doesn’t mean that we won’t struggle with what God wants us to be. We need to trust him to constantly wrap his creative hands around us until we are what is “best to him”.
Jeremiah 18:1-6
“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.
God doesn’t work with a molding. He is in a process of constant forming. If God sees an imperfection he will take the clay and start again. He isn’t looking for us to match what others think we should or shouldn’t be. God is working on something bigger. To make us more and more like him. Being in his likeness means we may not fit.
Look at what Isaiah writes about Jesus:
Isaiah 53:2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
People were not drawn to Jesus by his appearance. The religious leader didn’t accept Christ because he wasn’t kingly. Jesus didn’t fit the mold others desired. If that is true, we shouldn’t expect anything different in our lives. So with that understanding, we must stop trying to be what others want and more what God wants. That doesn’t mean that we won’t struggle with what God wants us to be. We need to trust him to constantly wrap his creative hands around us until we are what is “best to him”.
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