So many responsibilities...
Wife. Mom. Daughter. Friend. Photographer. Event Designer.Author. Business Owner. Minister...
I love everything that I do.
I love who I'm destined to be.
Yet sometimes under the pressure of the weight I find myself cracked in areas and laying helplessly broken.
Have you ever been there?
Laying in this state can make you feel useless, unappreciated and undeserving .
It can cause you to relinquish your faith and embrace fear and doubt if you allow it to.
Recently, I've discovered that in my brokenness the amazing power and love of God is immeasurable.(My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9).God's love reaches us right where we are, picks us up from beds of decay and breathes life inside of us, even though we're cracked. I'm a cracked clay vessel being loved by my Sovereign God and wholeness belongs to me even though I'm flawed and cracked. Please, don't ever think that your imperfections, flaws, and cracks are to much for God. I assure you they're not! In my broken places, bleeding and wounded by self inflicted wounds,the abrasions of others and the process of living, GOD'S grace IS sufficient.
He taking my cracked self, releasing the breath of His Spirit inside of who I am in Christ Jesus, and causing a stirring to take place that's shifting me from a dead place to an awakening position. In this place, I finally realize, the treasure isn't on the outside it resonates within. With all of my cracks, spits, tears and rip, God loves me and He will use me for His glory. Hmmm...I remember growing up that our FINE CHINA only got taken out and used a few times a year for fear of breaking BUT the CHIPPED,CRACKED CLAY was used on a daily basis...
Oftentimes we judge the outer wrappings and not the inside content and if it's not "suitable" to us, we discard it.
Don't discard WHO you are because of WHAT you've been through!
Chipped, Cracked, Broken and Flawed....GOD LOVES YOU AND HE HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE!
My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness...
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us-2 Corinthians 4:7
Arise jars of clay and LIVE!
