Making plaster items is a repetitive process.
We pour the slip in the mold, let it harden, then we pull apart the mold.
We can scrub the mold with water and a brush and prepare it for another casting, one just like the first.
Here’s the conundrum we face. If we have a flaw in our mold, every piece we form will have that identical flaw. It’s inherent in the design. We can try to polish it out after the casting is complete, but we will not get identical results.
The flaw will always be a rough spot in the plaster’s design.
God says it’s time to break out of our mold of self-interest and worldly living. It’s our opportunity to become someone new.
We don’t have to be like the old man we once were.
2 Corinthians 5:17 is an exciting verse.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
When we allow God to pour us into the Christ mold, we become just like him.
We begin to live like Jesus. Our mannerisms. Our treatment of the people around us. Our concern for our fellow man.
There’s talk today of the refugees gathering at the First World’s borders around the globe. What did Jesus do when 5,000 refugees approached him? He fed each one.
That’s what we become when we come out of the Jesus mold.
That’s the Christian example the needy and hurting need to see.
That’s us when we are broken and remade into the beauty that is Jesus our Lord.
Let’s break out of the world’s mold. Let’s let Jesus shape us into something new and wonderful.
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