Being the Model and not the Imitation

Jeremiah 18:1-4

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message. So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.

But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands;

so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

A creator, an originator, one who holds purpose in their hands and builds by design for function, use, or beauty. I never understood how one could believe that the world was formed without a creator, without a purpose, void of a design and a function. A lump of clay doesn't spin itself into function and if one argues the point that it quite possibly could by some cosmic force, then my argument turns to the purpose for that piece of clay. If there is no plan, no purpose, no design, no set use, then what makes it unique? What make sit of any significance? By chance it happens to hold water and be only of use till it is destroyed because there is no other purpose for it beyond what just happened to appear. As a being, I would hope I would not be merely a lump of clay, spontaneously thrown to be whatever design and use that I just happened to become. To possibly be of someones use or need- to just lay on the ground of the earth 'till someone, need I say a "creator," chose to pick me up, dust me off, and use me for their own purpose. No matter your view or belief, you believe in a Creator, one who gives you your purpose--I choose to believe that my Creator is greater than one who forms a spontaneous use/function for that which is random.

Looking back at my last 27 years, I can see how I've been re-shaped, re-worked, given a new coat of paint, all in order to serve part of my Creator's greater purpose and plan. I cringe of thinking of remaining forever as the individual I was in High School, in College, or even today. I'm not ashamed of who I was or who I've become, I just hope never to be stuck in a single stage of my life--to only serve one purpose and to become obsolete as time progresses.

My hope comes from knowing that my God, my Savior, my Creator, holds me in His hands, that I am His creation, that I was inspired by His brilliance, and that He has a plan for me--a purpose. I am unique, one of a kind--I was formed from noting into something of value, even if it may seem for no one other than the Creator Himself.

Change requires force, motion, direction, and purpose. Many view this simply by the term "evolution," and yet they panic and fear nature's natural course of change, such as global warming, because they don't understand what that change is. They want, they need, they desire a creator--a purpose, one with a plan. They step up themselves to try and force that direction and understanding but in trying to prevent evolution they simply live in denial and fear of the very term they use as their religion.

Evolution is real--change does occur, as Jeremiah 18 states, "so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him." I do not fear change or this process of Evolution because my greatest hope is to be an inspiration, something ordinary that can be shaped into something extraordinary. To lay my head down at night with a hope that tomorrow I will serve a purpose greater than today's, to know that I had a purpose before I was formed and to know my Creator keeps working out His purpose for creation.

I am covered in fingerprints from a designer who creates His best vessels through patience, persistence, and an inspiration that makes His masterpieces the model and not the imitation.