He Is Shaping Us
During the Great Depression, there was a man who lost his
job, his wife, his home and his fortune. He hung on tightly to the one thing he
still had left . . . his faith in God.
One day, he stopped to watch some men doing stonework on a
church. One of the workers was chiseling a triangular piece of stone. He asked
the worker, "What are you going to do with that?"
"See that little opening way up there near the spire?"
the worker asked. "Well, I'm shaping this piece of stone down here . . . so
it will fit up in there."
As he walked away, tears filled his eyes, for it seemed God had
spoken through that worker to explain the ordeal he currently was
experiencing: "I'm shaping you down here, so you will fit in up
here."
I pray that we will remember to thank the Lord for all the
"shaping" He does in our lives, which brings us closer to Him.
"But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father, we are the clay, and
Thou our potter; And all of us are the work of Thy hand." (Isaiah 64:8 NASB)
"But now, O LORD,
You are our Father;
We are the clay,
and You our potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand."
(Isaiah 64:8 NKJV)
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