A Glimpse Of Her! (Episode 9)

 

She had a fight with Lynne and their friendship fell apart.

She got herself an apartment and moved from the school’s hostel. She never went back to Mr. Nelson’s place.

Renetta had completed her undergraduate program and currently doing her compulsory one year national service in the Eastern Region.

“I thought I was raising a daughter fit for the King’s palace, but I didn’t know she wasn’t even close to it, where did I miss it with you? I sacrificed a lot for you Casey” Casey’s mother told Casey whilst she was crying loudly in a dream she was having one midnight.

Casey suddenly woke up and was visibly shaking. Feelings of guilt overshadowed her. She felt remorseful of everything she has done.

“What have you turned into Casey? This is not the life you envisioned for yourself. Mummy and Daddy never brought you up like this. What have you become Caseeey?” Casey maundered hitting herself.

“You are worthless and useless! Nothing better will come out of you. Forget the promises of God for your life. Just forget Casey. Your sins are unforgivable” Casey’s inner voice told her.

She broke down and howled.

She took her phone to check the time and a notification popped up – a message from their campus Pastor – Pastor Ben which reads:

Do you see yourself as a trash? I have a cheering report for you!

God who had made you and gave you the breadth of life actually sees you differently, He doesn't see you as a worthless trash not worthy of any use but to be disposed in a nearby incinerator, rather He sees in you a raw material needed by Him for further refining process and to subsequently emerge as an entity worthy of admiration and association. Behold He is the potter and every potter has a great need for the raw material needed to make vessels which is to be used for great purposes.

So if you see yourself as a trash, well that is okay because our Master is actually in an unrelenting business of gathering trash cans for His glorifying work. Before the trash became a trash, it was first of great value, not until it became empty and discarded. God has never made a person he didn't love; He doesn't waste His time on things that are useless.

Your life is precious to Him for He has loved you with an everlasting love that is boundless even while we became trash, He still loves us (Romans 5:8) and sent His only son to fetch us in our discarded, rejected, abandoned, trampled upon and filthy states.

When Jesus stretched forth His arms wide on the cross, He was saying “I love you this much!" You are worth searching and dying for and He will always do anything to ensure your safety. God wants to redeem human and specifically you my friend from the grip of Satan and bring them out from their filthy state; He wants to take you out from the trash bin and make you into what He intended for you right before you were conceived.

He cares about your redemption, He wants all His lost Children found, He doesn't expect you to be perfect, but He wants you to come to him with your imperfections and He will give you a new form.

You might be filthy, “Well, maybe”. You might feel rejected, engrossed with guilt, asking yourself whether anything good will still come out from you. You might have been a Christian before now, committed and consecrated, but you lost it all due to pleasure, influence by peers, and pressure. Dearly beloved, the Potter is in dire need of you.

He wants to heal your scar, reform your brokenness; He wants to take the pool of your tears and transform them into extravagant testimonies. Your scar might look on the interim as a setback, but in the real sense, it is a set up by God to bring forth from you a glorious story that will heal the heart of men and the world around you.