How Does Light
Shine Through?
We all want to look
our best and put our best foot forward. We are all on the potter’s wheel and
are apart of the master designer.
The Master molds
us, shapes us, He puts His hand on us and digs deep into our very soul…
Once we are shaped
we are handcrafted and sanded down into a beautiful vessel somewhat like a
vase. There are hours, days, and sometimes years involved with the process of
our shape. We are put in the fire and we are painted until we become just what
God can use us for His glory.
Sometimes though…
We are sitting on
the shelf and we are doing our part and we are holding the water that we were
designed to hold. There are beautiful flowers in our vase and they are
blooming. Then something happens and the flowers begin to die and the water
begins to dry up in our lives. We were once full but we stopped getting fresh
water from the Master and the flowers stopped budding in our vase.
Then…
The unthinkable
happens the vase tips over from the shelf and we are broken into little pieces.
There are pieces all over the room and it seems just like humpty dumpty we can
never be put back together again.
How can I ever
fulfill my purpose again?
Then comes the
Master…
He lovingly scoops
the pieces into His big all powerful hands. He searches for all the pieces of
our vase. He looks in the dark corners, under the chairs, and behind every shut
door. He scoops up every shard and sits down at His wheel and begins to glue us
back together again.
The pieces take
time to put back together. The Master lovingly spends countless hours putting
back together His creation. The glue is painful; the pieces don’t fit in all
the exact same places. There are shards of guilt, pain, fear, oppression,
depression, anxiety, doubt, shame, and anguish that He lovingly decides to
remove from the original design.
The once put
together vase now looks like a puzzle or rather a road map. There are
intersections and jigsaws. There are juts and jags. There are highways and
roadways. There are open cracks in the new creation.
But the open cracks
allow light to shine through the vase that never could shine through before.
The original design only had room to be filled and it never had a purpose for
light to shine through. No longer can the vase hold water but instead it overflows
and runs out over the sides.
The Vase= our life.
Once we are broken
then when Jesus puts us back together we are still a vessel but we serve a
greater purpose. We have all the cracks in us but that just means His light can
shine through us. Yes, we were once beautiful sitting on the shelf but now His
beauty is able to inhabit our lives. His beauty is what shines through us in
our broken place.
We think all is
lost and that it is all over because we are not as we once were. But really we
are finally fulfilling our purpose because now the light of Jesus’ love can
shine through the cracks of our broken life. Only He has the understanding to
our roadmap and only He can find all the pieces to our puzzle.
Don’t dismay if God
gave you a promise it will come to pass. He is the one who gave the promise so
that means He is the one who has to fulfill the promise. He owns our promises
and God cannot lie, so what He has said will come to pass. And if it doesn’t
for some reason happen the way that you think, still praise Him because at any
moment He will fulfill His word in your life!
Don’t be afraid of
the process of breaking… Because it is the brokenness that you become the most
beautiful vessel as His light shines through your life!
How does light
shine through?
The light shines
through the cracks of brokenness.
