"Sticky Situation" by Petra Pierre - Robertson

“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.”  Jeremiah 18:3&4

I started mixing the dough with a spoon. I didn’t want my hands to get messy.  Some use a bread maker to avoid the mess.  But in the absence of a bread maker, there comes a point when you have to place your hand in the sticky ‘mess’.

Hand in the sticky mess!

As I reluctantly set aside the spoon, placed my hands in the dough, and curled my fingers around the gooey lump in preparation for kneading, the startling analogy struck: as my hands are in the sticky mess, so the Potter’s hands are in the clay.  He moulds us with his hands. He is in our mess moulding, kneading, fashioning and remaking.

Fingers curl around gooey mess

STICKY SITUATION? Whoever is reading this, regardless of your sticky situation, He has got you.  He has got your situation.  Stay in his hand!  “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand…”  Jeremiah 18:6. 

SET ASIDE: You may be feeling now that he has cast you aside. As with the bread, you have probably been set aside.  But rest assured you are covered (with his righteous life), in preparation for the heat to come.  If you think the process was hard, that was only in preparation for the real heat!

Set aside

YOU WILL RISE: Use the time of covering to introspect, fortify, study,  pray and praise; and you will rise - in preparation for the heat.

You will rise as you introspect

You will rise as you study

You will rise as you pray

You will  rise as you praise

Rise when you are covered

 WARNING: After you rise, after the spiritual ‘highs’, come the heat!

NOTE:  Heat is necessary for the finished product.  You have to rise through the heat.  Rise in the assurance that He controls the heat.  He knows what temperature will afford the right outcome.  He adjusts the controls. And He is waiting to remove you from the heat when the time is right; based in His perfect timing, not your own.

Sometimes He reaches in to check on you; other times He just waits outside.  But rest assured He is always there monitoring your development.  He will not give you more than you can bear.  The Master Chef “(…will form you) into another pot, as seemed best to him.”  Jeremiah 18:4

Limitation of this human bread maker:  So an emergency came up. I had to hastily leave the house. Alas, I returned to my dough, much later than expected, to find this

Unattended dough

ASSURANCE: This will NEVER happen with our heavenly father.  He is omnipresent!  He can be in many places at the same time, and attend to all our needs and emergencies simultaneously!  He never turns his back on us!  He has promised that he will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).  He is with us at every leg of the process through to completion.

IN HIS TIME: Whatever your situation, stay in the potters hand (Jeremiah 18).  He is faithful; He has promised (Hebrews 10:23).  He has set the timer and will remove you from the ‘heat’ when the time is right!

Be Blessed!

Petra Pierre - Robertson 

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