The LORD said to me, “Go down to the potter's house, where I will give you my message.” So I went there and saw the potter working at his wheel. Whenever a piece of pottery turned out imperfect, he would take the clay and make it into something else.
“Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands. (Jeremiah 18:1-4, 6 GNT)

This is the verse that has been hounding me/haunting me/changing me/challenging me in the last week or do. I have been journeying through the painful occurrences in Jeremiah's life. This man was called to do nothing but warn and challenge the israelites.

They put him in a cistern filled with mud at one point!!!

Even then he didn't stop sharing gods warnings with them. The kicker? He wasn't making it up and God came through with what he promised.

After all that revelation, i go to church on wednesday and I hear pastor mike rosell speak about the same passage.

Someone out there say it with me: confirmation!!

Here's the thing... When pastor mike spoke he said something that wrecked me! He said the Potter destroys our plans in order to make something he planned all along.

So while I am here thinking nothing worked out in my way, God all along was working on something. In order for it to be fruitful, he had to essentially destroy my plans!

Love God and the rest will follow (according to His will)

We ask this question to the kids in a survey at work. The answer that never fails to bring a smile to my face?

FLY

How many of you agree?

As much as the thought of just walking out my door and taking flight is intriguing to me... I honestly would say i would rather have X-ray vision of sorts... I want an X-ray of a person's true thoughts...

I want to know if people really mean what they say and say what they mean...then again do I? Hmmm

Maybe not...ha!

Ok fine...I want to FLY!

Fly to New York... There you go!

Love God and the rest will follow (except maybe the flying part)

So I was driving back from a friends house tonight...tying up loose ends...

I had this road ahead of me that was pitch black. I have been on that road before but I was always on the phone or singing to some song. Tonight though it was just me and this lonely road.

I am not a fan of silence, its when my thoughts are the loudest! Like clockwork, they began...what will I do next? Is this a move I was supposed to make? Will it be a mistake? So I began to ask my God if I was losing a battle maybe I was giving up and then this song came on by mercy me!


MOVE

I'm not about to give up
Because I heard you say
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I won't stop, I'll keep my head up
No, I'm not here to stay
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days

I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus:]
When life won't play along
And right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found
So I won't let it drag me down
Oh, I'll keep dancing anyway

I'm gonna move (move)
I'm gonna move (move)
I'm gonna move

I've got to hold it steady
Keep my head in the game
Everything is about to change
Everything is about to change

This hurt is getting heavy
But I'm not about to cave
Everything's about to change
There's gonna be brighter days

I just might bend but won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus]

No matter what may come
Gotta move to a different drum
No matter what life brings
Gotta move gotta move to a different beat [x2]

I just might bend but won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus x2]

No matter what may come
Gotta move to a different drum
No matter what life brings
Gotta move gotta move to a different beat

-mercy me

Annnnnnd my questions died! God has a plan and I will move to His beat! In this case it means a physical move too and if this means I get to go places with God that I have never gone before then so be it.

Love God and the rest WILL follow!!


p.s.
God, next time would you direct the wind more northish though? Like NYC perhaps? Hehe