Broken Pieces

Last week during a talk with a friend she told me an amazing story.

I don't know if I'll get the details right or what country it's from so please just bear with me.

The story goes that in some country in Asia when a piece of pottery breaks they don't take the broken shard and glue it back into place. Instead they mold a piece of gold to replace the shard and put that in the empty space instead. The effect is that even as more pieces break off the pottery becomes more valuable instead of less because it's been replaced with gold instead of clay.

Isn't that an amazing picture of what God does with us? We go through things in life that break us and we cry out asking God why He won't piece us back together. But the reason is because He allowed us to be broken so He could fill that empty space with something far more precious and valuable then we could ever imagine.

The more God breaks us the more He is fashioning us into a much more precious and valuable vessel to carry His word, His light and His Spirit into the world.

Trials will come but they have a purpose. Not just to break you but to mold you in His image.