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Feeling All Rosy Inside!
I wanted to encourage someone today with these rosy benches. You might be saying to yourself,” This gal has gone off somewhere.” When I found these old benches at a flea market, they looked like they once were possibly stained red, but they were so weathered that it was hard to tell for sure. I shook them and they were pretty wobbly, but I bought them for practically nothing and took them home. I remember asking my husband if he could tighten up the legs to see if they would become sturdier! Well when he had done as I had asked and tightened the screws that were in them, the benches were as solid as could be. They were really sturdy and stable. I then sanded and repainted them with a base paint. I found that I honestly liked them just with the base color. However, I could see something else in them. I began painting the first rose and then the second until Viola! I had two matching rose benches that I received awesome money for at an arts and craft show!
“Okay, okay, you’re still wondering, what does that have to do with me? How could that possibly encourage me?” Well, I once was like these old benches. I had been through some things that really made me look and feel pretty wobbly. You might say I was very unsure of my purpose and wasn’t the least bit stable in my mind, will, emotions, spirit, or even in my body. Life is a rough game to play sometimes, and especially if you play it hard! Eventually the life you’ve led catches up with you. But one day, when I thought I was no longer useful, or was so ugly that no one could ever want me, The Lord Himself bought me with the highest possible price! He didn’t just slap a coat of paint on me, but he cleansed me from the inside out and totally remade me. He tightened up every” loose screw.” I was stable again and had new purpose and meaning. I was in HIS eyes as beautiful as any rose….like these benches, He seen something more in me!
Jeremiah 18:2-4 (KJV)
2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
He is looking at you right now with the piercing eyes of the great Creator, The Master Potter and Artist. He is remaking you and creating something so beautiful in you. I just wanted to encourage you to know that you are of great value, worth and purpose. He has paid the ultimate price to purchase you. He loves you so much and considers you His finest piece of art!
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Lovely is as lovely does. God is SO GOOD to us.
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