Tuesday, May 24, 2022
We Are Less Than We Claim,
And More Than We Imagine.
Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Words of Grace For Today
Clay.
Filled with spirit and life only by the work of God.
Still only clay.
We’d like to be more.
We’d like to be very significant, remembered, honoured, respected, and comfortable with how we live.
We are still only clay to which God has given spirit and life.
Now, if we, though only spirit filled clay, would at least be able to stop sinning. That would be an accomplishment worth celebrating, and quite the achievement for a lump of spirit filled clay!
But not sinning is beyond us clay footed, clay headed, and clay hearted beings.
Thankfully God knows us so well that God provides forgiveness, and Jesus Christ to advocate for us, though I believe that Jesus advocates less with God for our forgiveness, than with us to convince us that we need to be forgiven. Thankfully God knows us so well.
Still only clay.
Yet spirit-filled,-enlivened,-freed-(even-to-sin),-forgiven,-loved,-and-sent-to-love-others clay.
Clay loved alive by God and freed to love God.
Clay, precious in God’s eyes clay.
Not bad for hard or slick dirt, eh?!