As soon as we got home, I remember looking down and seeing a gray stain smack dab in the middle of my shirt. My heart sunk. I closed my eyes and thought, “Please, don’t be smudged! It can’t be smudged!” And that whole week I anxiously waited for the phone call.
That afternoon my sister had surprised me with a reservation for pottery painting. I was so thrilled to try it for the first time. I could finally check it off my bucket list! Every little piece of pottery was intricate in design, all awaiting to be painted with vibrant colors. I’m embarrassed to say this, but after seeing all the beautiful pieces, I became a little ambitious and I decided to paint two pieces in the time frame we were given of two hours. In my mind, I was convinced I would have time to paint both. My second piece was a jar I painted with golden hue all around. I also used white to paint “cracks” around the pottery piece, making it seem like a broken jar. In the center, I painted with dark gray, the words: “perfectly imperfect”. I wanted to show that even through the brokenness the jar was still beautiful and unique. The glazing would take place within the week and we would get a call when our pieces were complete, ready to be picked up. The studio finally called us to let us know we could pick up our pottery pieces. When I saw my second pottery piece, I realized how ironic it all turned out. Just as I feared, it was smudged. And yet it still looked beautiful. That smudge made it imperfect and yet, the time and care given to paint it, made it all perfect. Throughout this whole ordeal, I could feel God teaching me a beautiful life lesson.
I was reminded once again of those discouraging moments when I’d focus more on my past, faults, and sins, instead of remembering my redemption in Christ. We as sinners, when we come before the throne of God, are imperfect. Yet in Christ, we are redeemed by His blood and we are made new! We are a new creation in Him! He is our mediator and in Him we are purified. In Him, we receive healing. Many times the enemy will try to discourage us with thoughts of our weaknesses, imperfections, and our constant blunders, causing us then to feel guilty and unworthy of God’s love. We must remember that yes, we are imperfect and yes, we will continue to make mistakes; but we are now as Peter said, “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession…called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” (1 Pet. 2:9-10) We can’t allow our past to define our future. We can’t allow our imperfections to stop us from fully attaining God’s purpose for our lives. Those imperfections are now covered with love. And God is lovingly and carefully creating a perfect jar out of our clay.
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