Change

Its funny how life is constantly in change and flux. Just when you are getting used to a situation, everything shifts again. I see this with my friends. My friend Dominick is back at school and therefore not around as much anymore. My friends back home in Virginia.... some of them have moved across the country and I may very well never see them again. My mom just moved to Ypsilanti Michigan. Things are always changing... but I am glad. I would get very bored if things stayed the same.

There is a line from a Gungor song that says: "Jesus, you're the one who saves us, constantly creates us into something new." I like being reminded of that concept. We are constantly being created into something new. While I may have been "saved" in a single moment, I continue to "work out my salvation" (Philippians 2:12) as God constantly shapes me and refines me. It is easy to think that a painful change is a bad one. But when a potter finds a flaw in the pot while it spins, he will often smash the clay down and begin again. 

So what shall I become next?... a pot?... a bowl?.... something beautiful?... something small?.... something grand?.... something useful?.... 

Let us both be encouraged that the potter is constantly creating us into something new.... and He is a darn good potter.....