Why do we run from pain? What makes us want to avoid suffering so much? Even experts tell us that we should aviod that which causes us hurt. We think it is unhealthy to be put in situations that make our ugliness come out.
But that ugliness is who we really are. When someone says something to us and a flash of anger runs across our face or changes our composure and words fly out of our mouth like darts something very profound is happening in us. Who we are in our core is seeping out. And we seep out like that because of the incredible pressure we are under.
But why should we avoid such unhealthiness? This is life! It is at these moments, when we can bear no more, that our God is lovingly molding us. He is molding us to be who He wants us to be.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. - Isaiah 64:8 (NASB)
Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker--An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' - Isaiah 45:9 (NASB)
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