If you have ever been on a cruise you know that every night when they come to service your cabin, they leave chocolates on your bed and a towel. A towel! One might ask "Why a towel?" The answer to that is "to show their creativity."
If you picture a towel, you might picture a hand towel or bath towel that is used to dry off or clean off something that is wet. So why would someone leave a towel on your bed when you already have a set of towels in your cabin? Well, if you look at this flat, long piece of terry cloth fabric, when you see it on your bed at night, it is hardly recognizable.
We have walked in to see rabbits, frogs and even elephants shaped from towels laying on our bed. It is funny to see what can be created and the anticipation of what we will see each night is exciting. Someone has actually taken a towel and shaped it into a new thing, a beautiful thing.
It only took having an extra towel available. So as I think of that towel being shaped and the individual shaping it, I wonder how it would change things if there no extra towels available for this added luxury.
This year, I pray that I will present myself available to Christ like that flat towel and that I will allow Him to shape me into something beautiful in his work. Some of that work may be easy and quick and like these towel animals, some of it may be extensive and take a longer time.
Whatever the case, I pray that God shapes me into something that will bring happiness to his kingdom and that I may somehow impact others. I pray that I will be filled with anticipation of how He will shape me and that the shaping will be so intense that others would not recognize what I once was. I pray that I will willingly turn myself over to Him and allow Him to work in my life and ultimately let go to the point of asking "What will I be after God gets through shaping me?"
Happy New Year all!
Yet you Lord are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter, we are the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Jeremiah 18:4
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