Christian Living

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Why Is This Happening To Me?

Have you ever felt that you just couldn't keep going on, and that it looks like someone is "out to get you"? Sometimes life just doesn't seem fair, but there is a divine plan at work. God allows us to go through certain things in our lives to get us where he wants us to be.

Do you ever feel alone, like there is no one who understands you or what you are going through? I want you to know there is and his name is Jesus Christ. Sometimes we go through things in our lives and we want to ask, "Why me?" There is a reason for everything that happens to us. Nothing happens to us by chance.

James 1:2-4 tells us, to "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."

Romans 8:37 goes on to tell us "But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him that loved us."

I believe that everything we go through not only helps to increase our faith, but also pushes us toward our divine destiny.


Here is a story that is really good which was sent to me. Read it in it's entirety, it will bless you.


The Potter


The story is told of a couple who used to go England to shop at a beautiful antique store. This particular trip was to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked antiques and pottery, and especially teacups, and so spotting an exceptional cup, they asked "May we see that? We've never seen a cup quite so beautiful."

As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke... "You don't understand." It said, "I have not always been a teacup. There was a time when I was just a lump of red clay.

My master took me and rolled me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled out, Don't do that. I don't like it! "Let me alone," but he only smiled, and gently said; "Not yet!!" "Then, WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. 'Stop it! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be sick!', I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, quietly; 'Not yet.'

He spun me and poked and prodded and bent me out of shape to suit himself and then... then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. " Help! Get me out of here!" I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side, ' Not yet ' .

"When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! "Ah, this is much better," I thought. But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Oh, please, Stop it! Stop it!' I cried. He only shook his head and said. 'Not yet...'

Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it was not like the first time. This time it was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged... I pleaded...I screamed... I cried... I was convinced I would never make it. I was ready to give up and just then the door opened and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf, where I cooled and waited and waited, wondering 'what's he going to do to me next?'

An hour later he handed me a mirror and said 'Look at yourself.' And I did...I said, 'That's not me, that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful !' Quietly he spoke: "I want you to remember then,' he said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened. You would not have had any color in your life. And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the hardness would not have held.

Now you are a finished product. .... Now you are what I had in mind when I first began with you."

The moral of this story is this: The Lord knows what He's doing for each of us; He is the potter, and we are His clay. He will mold us and make us, and expose us to just enough pressures of just the right kinds that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing and perfect will. So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning out of control; when you feel like you are in a fiery furnace of trials; when life seems too hard to bear, try this.... Brew a cup of your favorite tea in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and have a little talk with.....


the Potter





Ruth Rusk is a Transitional Life Coach and a writer. She graduated from the Christian Coaching Institute and is a member of Coachville and the Interntional Association of Coaches. Although her passion is working with Empty Nesters, Ruth works with people from all walks of life who are going through difficult changes and are looking for a more satisfying and meaningful life. She offers teleclasses as well as Christian based coaching. For more information about coaching, email her at [email protected] or go to her website


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