IT HAPPENED AGAIN!
I’ve been up – in my morning chair since 4 AM. “Really Lord can’t we do this at another time instead of this ungodly hour?” Oh, wait…
Some six years ago in the first year of this journey God has been taking me on, my Bible developed the habit of falling open at Jeremiah 18:4.
“…but the pot he was shaping was marred in his hand. So the potter
formed it into another pot, shaping it as seems best to him.
THIS MORNING IT HAPPENED AGAIN! it’s now about 6:15. I’ve had coffee, checked FB, sent a ThkQ to Jon for his help yesterday, snuggled with Logan, and wrote a blog post. (for another day) Then I dozed for a few minutes!
Logan stole my iPhone and took it to his bedroom so I pulled my Bible out of its slot and it opened to…. Sure’nough, Jeremiah 18:4
6 years ago, this verse was a promise of what God was doing in and for me. Today I see it as a fulfillment of that process. For the past 6 1/2 years, He’s been shaping me into a vessel suitable for His purpose.
Lest I come across as arrogant, let me assure you that for most of this journey, I’ve been dragged by Him, kicking and screaming all the way. AA has a phrase that applies here – “looking for a softer more gentle way.” I don’t want the rough road. I prefer the peaceful path through the meadow. I don’t like the 2×4 whops to the ego. I like the gentle nudges, the velvet covered slaps to the back of my head.
But HE knows what works best in me. He has been RELENTLESSLY FAITHFUL to do for me that which HE knows is for my ultimate best and for His purpose.
AND FOR THAT, ON THIS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING,
I AM GRATEFUL
What about you? RU in process? Do you long to lay down beside the quiet stream and rest for a while? RU instead feeling the knife of the Master Physician cutting deep? RU in recovery from past wounds? Have U begun to recognize the shape of the vessel He has been forming in U? Yesterday? Last week? Last months? RU getting a glimpse of his purpose in you? Please share with us.
My dream and vision for this blog is for it to be a “digital-small-group” recovery meeting room. THAT can only happen if U share.
“WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER – NOT FIX EACH OTHER”
(Celebrate Recovery small group guideline#3)
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”
Jerimiah 29:11(NIV)
It Really IS Just That Simple 
Mar: let me say that *I* don’t see any changes U need to make. That reminds me if what U thought the first time I walked (slimmed) into my first Celebrste Recovery meeting. “What’s HE doing here – HE has it all together.”
U’ve been a huge blessing to me. Thx for sharing.
The Lord is shaping me… into what… I don’t know. All I know is that I am changing little by little. Like hiccups. I see a little change here and a little change there. I don’t see the end result. But, I know that whatever the Lord is shaping me into, I will be exactly who He wants me to be and not who I imagined I would be. By the way, I like the idea of your digital small group.