John 15: 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.
We are all just regular people, we are broken, and imperfect. We spend a lot of time trying to fix our cracks, and our imperfections, so that we might fit into what the world calls perfect. Yet we will never reach perfection, our perfection comes from Christ, and it is that perfection through Christ that we must strive for…..and do you know what? The Lord loves your cracks, and your imperfections. He will use your strengths and your weaknesses, that is why He chose you…and He did, He chose YOU. I am reminded of the story of a man who lived in a village that their only water came from a stream nearby. Each day, the man would put a clay pot on each end of a pole, put the pole over his shoulders, and walk down to the water to fill the jars so that he might have water for the day. Both of the jars looked the same, but the one on the right had a crack. Each day the man would fill the jars, but by the time he got back home the jar on the right was only half full. This imperfection really bothered the jar. He wanted to be perfect so that he might serve his master well. Every day he would admire the perfection in the jar that hung on the left. Finally not being able to stand it any longer he cried out to his master, “why will you not fix me?” “Why do you allow me to be broken, and only do half the job I was designed for”? To that the master replied as we come home tomorrow look not at the other jar on the pole, but onto the ground underneath you. On the trip home the cracked jar did not understand at first, so the master asked, do you see all of the flowers along your side of the path on the way home? It is because of your imperfection that these flowers are here. You see, I do not need two full jars of water, and because of your imperfection, you have helped bring life where there was none before, I fill you with life giving water, and that life passes out through you onto the world. I did not choose you in spite of your imperfection…..I chose you because of your imperfection.
Each of us are that cracked pot. God is using us now, and we do not even realize it. Imagine the things we could accomplish if instead of trying to be perfect in the eyes of the world, we paid attention to where the Lord was using us. He chose each of us for our unique qualities that only we have. Do not be in such a hurry to fix what you think might be broken, it might be the very thing that the world around you needs to live. We want more, we want better, we want bigger, but we already have what we NEED. Let us use that to our masters pleasure. We will never be perfect, but we are perfect in Christ.
God Bless,
Brian Thetford
The New
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God Bless,
Brian Thetford
The New
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