There was a rich old man who often used to visit the Beautiful American shop called "America Vintage Stores". As his love for old and antique products, pottery and especially expensive cups were underrated. That day was his wife's birthday. He was planning to buy her a beautiful expensive gift, suddenly he saw a beautiful expensive cup in a beautiful "vintage store". He said, to the owner "Wow! Can I see this cup?" Such a distinctive and rare piece. No words can describe it!
The Owner handed it to him, suddenly the cup spoke "you don't understand" said the cup. I was just a clay before being this beautiful one. Potter took me and rolled me around and patted me more often and I yelled, "Leave me alone" but he just smiled and said, “Not now".
At that point He put me in a spinning wheel" said the Cup," please take me out of this wheel because I’m giddy! I screamed". But my potter only rebuked and said, "Not now".
Then He put me in the furnace. "I've never been so hot before!" the Cup said. "I screamed and knocked on the door. I could see him opened the door and shook his head and I could read his lips, No, no not yet.
Finally the door opened and he put me on the shelf, and I chuckled "that’s a relief now". Hardly I had cooled down, he began to brush and paint all over my body. The smoke was extremely weird. "Stop it, stop it! I cried". He just smiled and said, "Not yet finished".
Then all of a sudden he put me in the oven, not like the first one but it was twice, thrice hotter than before and I knew I was going to suffocate and die. I begged and screamed. I opened my mouth crying, and again shook his head and said, "not yet finished".
Then I tired off because there was no hope left for me, as I was ready to give up the door opened and he took me out and put me on the shelf. And an hour later he gave me a mirror and said, "Look at yourself" and as I did so, I said, “It's not me, that cannot be me! It's beautiful, I've become very beautiful.
He Said, “I need you to realize that", I know it hurts to be patted and rolled around, but if I had left you alone you would have eventually dried up.
I know it makes you dizzy to have been spun around in this Spinning wheel, but if I had stopped you would fall into pieces or crumbled.
I know it hurts you when burned in the heat, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked or would have fallen apart.
I know the fumes or smoke was weird when I brushed and painted you, but if I didn’t do it, you would never have been harsh;
You would never have colors in your life.
And if I hadn't put you back in the second oven, you wouldn't have lived so long because the hardness wouldn’t remain.
You are now an authentic and a unique product that I have made so far. You’re the one who were in my mind before when I first started working and now remain forever.
Lessons: God knows what he is doing (for all of us). We must know that We are his clay and this thing should be affix in our heart that he is our potter. He will shape us and make us his flawless and perfect cup. So that we can fulfill his best will. Remember certainly God will make you beautiful subsequently chaos. Let your potter’s will be done because his will is always perfect and best.
ISAIAH 64:8