The Tea Cup

This is an anonymous reading which beautifully illustrates how the divine Potter works with his people to mold them into the kind of vessels that will bring him honor and glory. Enjoy!


The TEACUP

The TEACUP looked like an ordinary teacup until it spoke: "You do not understand. I have not always been a teacup. There was a time when I was nothing but red clay. My master took me, rolled me, and patted me over and over and over. I yelled, "Leave me alone!" But he only smiled and said, "NOT YET." Then I was placed on a spinning wheel and spun around and around. I screamed, "Stop it! I am getting dizzy." The master nodded and said, "NOT YET." Then he put me in an oven, and it was terribly hot. I thought he would burn me to a crisp. I yelled and knocked on the door. I could see his lips moving as he said, "NOT YET." Finally, the door was opened and I began to cool. Then suddenly he painted me all over, and the fumes were horrible. I cried, "Stop it! Stop!" He only nodded: "NOT YET." All at once he put me back in the oven and it was twice as hot. I begged, pleaded, screamed, and cried. But he only said, "NOT YET." Then at the last minute, just when I knew I would never make it, he opened the oven and placed me on a shelf. An hour later he handed me a mirror and said, "Look at your self." I was beautiful, really beautiful.

"As I gazed at my beauty, my master said; "I know it hurt to be rolled and patted, but if I had left, you would have DRIED UP. I know it hurt to be spun around and around. But if I had stopped, you would have CRUMBLED. I know it hurt in the oven, but if I had stopped you would had CRACKED. I know the fumes were bad when I painted you, but if I had stopped you never would have HARDENED. But now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you!"

Brice Point: Do you see how God is patient with us when he is molding us through the storms of life? Notice the reactions of the clay, doesn't it reminds us of how we scream, yell, beg and even demand things at God? Beloved, whenever your in a storm, those dark moments in life, just remember that he is shaping you to look beautiful when the sun comes out.
When life gets just bit harder, just tie a knot at the end of the rope and hang on.

Jeremiah 18:4 "And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

~ Peace, S.J Brice