What
Do You Think About?
For as he thinks
in his heart, so he is.
Proverbs 23:7
(NKJV)
The potter took the lump of clay and
plopped it down in the center of the turntable. As he moved his foot
the wheel began to turn slowly and gradually built momentum.
Unhurriedly, he worked the malleable mud with skillful hands,
compressing it into a symmetrical ball that could be molded to his
imagination.
When the consistency and form were just
right he gently squeezed and pulled upward and outward, opening the
clay, stretching it to make a hollow in the center, all the time
conscious of the image in his mind.
He wet his hands once again and reached
deeper into what was now a small urn. Gently, pulling with both
hands, one inside, one outside, he raised the walls until they formed
a beautifully slender vase over a foot tall. He moved his foot
faster, increasing the rotation of the wheel. He next used a fluting
tool to carve recesses and decorative lines in the vase, pressing the
tool against the vase while supporting it with equal pressure from
inside.
A smile crept over his face as he took
stock of his work, for he was looking at the exact representation of
the image he’d formed in his mind. All that was left was to fire
the piece, transforming it into the priceless heirloom he envisioned
it to be.
†
The word ‘imagination’ in the Greek
means ‘A forming of.' The potter first had to imagine and visualize
what he wanted to create. He had to see it in his mind’s eye before
he could create it in the physical.
In Luke 6:45 Jesus said, “The good
man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart. The
evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.
For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.”
Our mind is the force that brings
things from the spiritual into the physical. What we think about
matters because, as today’s text says, our thoughts occupy they
recesses of our heart and will be expressed in physical actions.
Prayer
“The truth is that I
don’t always consider whether my thoughts are pleasing to You,
Lord. Help me to be mindful of what occupies my imagination. In
Jesus’ Name, amen.”
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