ROOM FOR JESUS #8 - Eternal Room

You’ve probably read or heard someone talk about how the light of God shines through the cracks of our earthly vessels – maybe using a pitcher as that symbol. You’ve probably also seen the story of how some cultures fill in the cracks in pottery with gold, making it stronger and more beautiful than it was before. Both are great analogies.

However, as with all analogies, there are cracks in both.

The Bible tells us that God is the Potter and we are the clay. [Isaiah 64:8; Jermiah 18:6]

The idea that God works in our broken places, which is true, is, I think, an incomplete thought. It is also true that often the light of God is best seen when the hard times come (the cracks in the pitcher). When God fills in our broken places with His character, purpose and processes it IS pure gold.

But, I invite you to consider whether the ultimate purpose of God is to shine through or fill in our broken places or if, ultimately, His goal is to completely break through who we are as humans and completely replace it with who we are in Him.

Sure, that would happen in this life. God, the Potter, creates us as a vessel that service Him – whether we feel He create an intricately decorated tea pot, or a useful chamber pot. His will is to be housed in and to be done from that earthen vessel.

But we are only earthen vessels for a short time and then, that vessel gets completely transformed. We stop being vessels wherein the Spirit of God is housed. We stop being vessels all together and become more like what we once housed. “For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.” [1Co 15:53 NLT]

We become immortal beings – entirely spirit. No more a container, but now no longer contained in flesh at all.

The Holy Spirit that seals us now is the promise of something greater than just carrying the Spirit in this life.

Ephesians 1:13-14 [NIV] 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.

It is the promise of transformation. If the Spirit is in you, God will shine through the cracks in this earthen vessel, we make room for God and He chooses to fill in those cracks with the beauty of His love and truth, which are great than pure gold, the we signify that we know that ultimately there will be no “room” for God. Rather, we will exist with Him for all eternity. He will be with us and we will be with Him, filling the universe and all eternity.

Right now, we don’t have room in these earthen vessels for that. But we won’t always be in these earthen vessels.

Jesus left to prepare rooms for us – mansions in His Father’s house. We can only inhabit those rooms if we make room for Jesus in every aspect of our lives here on earth now.

So, sweet sisters, let’s focus on making room for Jesus in all things until they day these vessels are gone and we come to exist in the mansion of eternity.

I welcome your comments and questions. You can write me in the chat or any time at Nancy@DyanmicChristianMinistries.org