I was listening to a Joyce Meyer podcast when she shared this story of a tea cup and I could so relate with it, I bet you would too. If you would read it carefully and reflect on how it relates to you, it would totally change the way you view challenges. Alright here we go:
"You know I have not always been like this, there was a time when nobody would have wanted me, when I was not attractive at all, you see there was a time in my life when I was just an old hard grey lump of clay and the Master Potter came along and he picked me up one day and he began to pat me, reshape me and I said stop that! What are you doing? That hurts... leave me alone, and he simply looked at me with a little smile and said 'not yet'.
And then he put me on this wheel and he began to spin me round and around and around and around and I got so dizzy, I couldn't even see where I was going, I felt like I was loosing it, everything was spinning around, I didn't know what was going on anymore, I felt so sick to my stomach and I said let me out of here!!! and he just smiled and said 'not yet'.
Finally the day come when I had finally taken up another shape, all that spinning around, patting, squeezing and pinching gave me another shape, then suddenly he put me into a furnace, and it was called the first firing, it was so hot in there, oh I could not believe how hot it was, I thought I can't stand this, I'm going to die, you have got to get me out of here! Don't you love me? *Crying*... Why are you leaving me here? The oven door had a glass and he just looked at me through the glass, he had this big grin on his face and a certain look in his eyes but then he wouldn't let me out and then he smiled and simply said 'not yet'.
Finally the oven door opened and he took me out and set me on a shelf, I thought *phew*! thank God that's over! Then he began to paint me all over with this stinking paint changing me from grey to the pretty blue that I am now and I said this stuff stinks! It's choking me *coughing*. I don't like this smell, stop it stop it stop it! And all he would say is 'not yet'.
Then he put me back into the second oven and it was called the second firing, it was twice as hot and I thought, now I'm really going to die for sure!!! This is the end of me, this would finish me off, get me out of here, I cannot stand this, I can't!!! I am telling you God I can't stand this, get me outta here! And he would just look through the glass and say 'not yet'.
Then one day the door finnnnalllly opened and he took me out and he put me up on this shelf to let me cool off. And after I cooled off, then one day he came by and gave me this mirror and I looked at myself and I could not believe how beautiful I was, I could not believe how much I had changed. Wow! I did not look anything like that old grey lump of clay that I started out to be, now I'm this beautiful little delicate tea cup and everybody wants me now but there was a time in my life when nobody wanted me, nobody liked me, nobody paid any attention to me, they just kicked me around and walked on me but now I'm special but you see I wasn't always this way." **The end**
So, what stage of the tea cup tale are you in? Are you on the patting, pinching & reshaping stage? or the wheel? Your life is spinning so much you don't even understand what's going on, why all these are happening to you? Questioning if God exists or if He even loves you? or are you in the furnace, the first or second firing? Now you think for sure your life is over, there's no way you can survive this, it's just better to die! Well, I'm telling you now that YOUR LIFE IS NOT OVER. If you would just put your trust in God, surrender to his plans for you (his plans are good- refer to Jeremiah 29:11) and remain humble in the process, you're not going to believe the amazing person you would turn out to be, just like that beautiful tea cup, you would be perfect, complete, needing nothing (refer to James 1:2-4).
Don't forget to share this to your friends, your social media pages etc. xoxo...
The Tea Cup Tale
A couple went into an antique shop and saw this really beautiful, magnificent tea cup, sitting high up on a shelf and they just fell in love with it, it is the most beautiful tea cup they had ever seen, they had to have this tea cup. While they were admiring it, all of a sudden the tea cup began to talk and it said:"You know I have not always been like this, there was a time when nobody would have wanted me, when I was not attractive at all, you see there was a time in my life when I was just an old hard grey lump of clay and the Master Potter came along and he picked me up one day and he began to pat me, reshape me and I said stop that! What are you doing? That hurts... leave me alone, and he simply looked at me with a little smile and said 'not yet'.
And then he put me on this wheel and he began to spin me round and around and around and around and I got so dizzy, I couldn't even see where I was going, I felt like I was loosing it, everything was spinning around, I didn't know what was going on anymore, I felt so sick to my stomach and I said let me out of here!!! and he just smiled and said 'not yet'.
Finally the day come when I had finally taken up another shape, all that spinning around, patting, squeezing and pinching gave me another shape, then suddenly he put me into a furnace, and it was called the first firing, it was so hot in there, oh I could not believe how hot it was, I thought I can't stand this, I'm going to die, you have got to get me out of here! Don't you love me? *Crying*... Why are you leaving me here? The oven door had a glass and he just looked at me through the glass, he had this big grin on his face and a certain look in his eyes but then he wouldn't let me out and then he smiled and simply said 'not yet'.
Finally the oven door opened and he took me out and set me on a shelf, I thought *phew*! thank God that's over! Then he began to paint me all over with this stinking paint changing me from grey to the pretty blue that I am now and I said this stuff stinks! It's choking me *coughing*. I don't like this smell, stop it stop it stop it! And all he would say is 'not yet'.
Then he put me back into the second oven and it was called the second firing, it was twice as hot and I thought, now I'm really going to die for sure!!! This is the end of me, this would finish me off, get me out of here, I cannot stand this, I can't!!! I am telling you God I can't stand this, get me outta here! And he would just look through the glass and say 'not yet'.
Then one day the door finnnnalllly opened and he took me out and he put me up on this shelf to let me cool off. And after I cooled off, then one day he came by and gave me this mirror and I looked at myself and I could not believe how beautiful I was, I could not believe how much I had changed. Wow! I did not look anything like that old grey lump of clay that I started out to be, now I'm this beautiful little delicate tea cup and everybody wants me now but there was a time in my life when nobody wanted me, nobody liked me, nobody paid any attention to me, they just kicked me around and walked on me but now I'm special but you see I wasn't always this way." **The end**
So, what stage of the tea cup tale are you in? Are you on the patting, pinching & reshaping stage? or the wheel? Your life is spinning so much you don't even understand what's going on, why all these are happening to you? Questioning if God exists or if He even loves you? or are you in the furnace, the first or second firing? Now you think for sure your life is over, there's no way you can survive this, it's just better to die! Well, I'm telling you now that YOUR LIFE IS NOT OVER. If you would just put your trust in God, surrender to his plans for you (his plans are good- refer to Jeremiah 29:11) and remain humble in the process, you're not going to believe the amazing person you would turn out to be, just like that beautiful tea cup, you would be perfect, complete, needing nothing (refer to James 1:2-4).
Don't forget to share this to your friends, your social media pages etc. xoxo...
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