This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 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. Then the word of the Lord came to me. 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. If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
Jeremiah 18:1-10
These past few weeks I been able to invest some time into my hobby of model painting. As I was working on this model that represents a space marine, which in its universe, is the embodiment of the greatness of humanity. It was only natural that I wanted to do a great paint job do you justice by the character.
As I painted the mini and take all the time and attention to paint the smallest of details, and after a period of hours divided in several days the mini is finally complete. Now I can’t help but be reminded how God takes care of us, and how he works in the smallest details of our lives. Even in those details that may seem too small to notice. God takes his time to work them out, to present a life that is beautiful, to turn our lives into something that we may not yet see, and this reminds me of the potter at the wheel. How he shapes the clay to form the pot. As God shaped Israel, he also shapes our lives today.
As I take a final look at the completed work, I am blessed to know that God takes care of my life with much greater detail than the one I spent on the miniature. Now one final question remains for us;
would you let God shape your life?
Dear father, thank you for the care you take in our lives and how you shape every detail in it even those small details that we take for granted, thank you for your love towards us and care.
Pastor Luis loves painting miniatures or as some of his friends refer to “Toy soldiers” and is always looking forward to paint a cool model.