What is the image you were molded after?
One of my favorite songs was written by Gene Reasoner titled:
He Didn’t Throw the Clay Away
Empty and broken, I came back to Him
A vessel unworthy, so scarred by sin.
But He did not despair… He started over again
And I bless the day, He didn’t throw the clay away.
Over and over, He molds me and He makes me,
Into His image, He fashions the clay.
A vessel of honor, I am today,
All because Jesus didn’t throw the clay away.
He is the Potter, I am the clay
Molded in His image, He wants me to stay.
But when I stumble and fall and my vessel breaks,
He just picks up those pieces,
He doesn’t throw the clay away…
Over and over, He molds me and He makes me,
Into His image, He fashions the clay.
A vessel of honor, I am today,
All because Jesus didn’t throw the clay away.
This song should be the mantra of my life. I am far from perfect, and I make so many mistakes in my life that they cannot all be counted. I am fortunate that I have a loving heavenly Father who patches me all back together, and gives me another chance on getting things right.
Who are you fashioned after? A Wall Street mogul, top fashion model, movie star? I could go on and on, but you get the picture. We are all striving for something or to be someone other than who we are. But let me tell you something, you were formed in the image of God, perfect in design and intent. What we do in and to our lives effect the purpose God has for us. Don’t get discouraged when you are faced with upset and failure, because we are not lost causes. God has promised his children to never leave us or forsake us. So he will pick up the pieces of our lives and start over again. The thing that is required of us is to let him do his work in us and through us.
As parents we need to teach our children to be the best they can be, by being who they are, and not someone else. Gently guide them away from worldly expectations and false beauty. Teach them that everything good comes from God and they have the beauty that comes from within, so they should learn the following verse; I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14, so they will never question who and what they are, because God doesn’t make mistakes.
We as writers take what the world would call plain people and make their inner beauty shine through and transform their outward beauty. That beauty is within us all, we just have to tap into it.
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah 64:8
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17