"The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand." Jeremiah 18:1-6 NLT
One of the awesome truths to coming to Christ and into recovery is how much we change. If we look back on where we came from to where we are today it's almost as if we were two completely different people. The person we were is almost unrecognizable and we are grateful for the change. However if we are honest about the change we didn't just up and decided to change. It took most of us to get to a point of utter despair and desperation to become open to change. In short we had to become beaten in order to become willing.
As painful as those experiences were God used them to bring us to a point to accept change. As the text tells us we were broken down and remolded. Sometimes as we grow in our relationship with God and in our recovery we will encounter resistance to keep us from getting there just as we encountered resistance to us designed to keep us in our original bondage. We must trust God that just as He used our prior pain to change us that He will take what is meant to hold us back, even if we placed those chains on ourselves, to drive us into the next level. While He may not change our circumstances, He will use those circumstances to change us.
****These meditations are a ministry of the Recovery Christian Centers (RCC) of Philadelphia, PA. Join us every Friday at 7pm at RCC Kensington, 2418 Kensington Ave, Philly, PA 19134 or on Saturday at 5pm at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave, West Philly, PA 19104*****
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