THE GREAT POTTER

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THE GREAT POTTER

READ:  Jeremiah 18:1-6

As the clay is in the potters’ hands, so are you

in my hand.  Jeremiah 18:6

One definition of the word attitude is “the angle of approach” that an aircraft takes when landing.  Author Chris Spicer writes:  “Attitudes are to life as the angle of approach is to flying.”  He adds, “Attitude is the way we choose to think about things, attitudes will cause us to react and behave in a certain way.”  He also says that attitudes are not inborn or accidental.  They are learned and absorbed reactions; therefore they can be changed.

During my thirties, the Lord began convicting me of my wrong thinking toward myself, others, and life-negative, self-pitying, and bitter thinking;  With the help of God’s Word, I recognized my need for change in three main areas:  my attitudes, actions, and reactions.  But I feared I couldn’t change.  One day I read in Jeremiah 18 how the potter refashioned some marred clay (which is what I felt like) into a different vessel, as it pleased the potter.  What I couldn’t do, my great Potter could!  I only needed to be cooperative clay.

Today this vessel is far from finished.  But as I put myself in the Potter’s hands, He keeps working on me and shaping my attitudes and actions.  I call them Christ-attitudes, Christ-actions, and Christ-reactions.

The great Potter can do the same for you.    JY

A change in the heart brings a change in behavior.