My Title

I have been told a lot lately that I think too much.  This I find funny, but the more I "think" about those comments it's not a "you're really booksmart" think too much.  It is a "your mind races a lot and consumes you" thinks too much.  Sadly, I have to agree with these comments and admit that I am not 100% sure of how to hit the pause button on my brain.  Perhaps putting some thoughts back into a blog and expressing myself in this capacity may work as an outlet thus causing me to stop analyzing things I just plain old need to let go.

Now on to my title.  Another thing that has been happening lately is that God has been using my words to help, challenge, or encourage others lately.  This to me is very humbling because I feel very inadequate to have such a responsibility.  On the other hand I get frustrated with myself and my walk with God and say I don't think I am doing enough for His Kingdom.  Yet when I am used I am hesitant to accept that as I am not sure I am ready for or even want such responsibility.  Ya see my pattern or circle of insanity that I go through here?  And by now you may or may not be saying to me, "What does this have to do with your title?" 

Glad you asked.  Francis Chan is a preacher that I highly respect and during one of His messages I was listening to he was discussing the role or preachers or teachers of God's Word.  The question was, "how can any of us claim to be experts on God?"  Yet this is how we percieve those who teach God's word at church or on TV or the internet or what have you.  He continued to discuss how it seemed riduculous to him that one piece of clay could explain to the other piece of clay about the potter.  This made sense to me.  How can we who are daily flawed and messing up express to others who daily fail and mess up about God and His perfect plan that He has for each of us.  The "reality" is this.  Outside of God's Word and God's teaching to us we cannot.  This again to me is very humbling, but also very encouraging.  In a world that says, "let me get my stuff together, comb my hair and clean up before I come to God" the truth is we are all messed up people in need of God's grace and love.  (Romans 3;23)

So there is why my title is what it is.  I like in Scripture where it speaks of God's body being as "iron sharpening iron" and the accountability in which that speaks to, but to be honest most days I don't feel sharp enough to be considered iron.  The lump of clay seems to fit me just fine and perhaps someday I will move up to the iron stage.  (lol) My purpose for this blog is simply this: I want to (as clay) share with others (also clay) about the Potter as he provides insight to me as well as using this means to be challenged by other lumps of clay who just want to be more like Jesus.