Clay in the Hands

I’m not even sure where I ran across this quote from Philip Yancey but it gave me such pause that I typed it up, printed it out and now it has joined so many others that decorate my desk.  The quote is this:  “Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

Many may not know this about me but a lifetime ago, when I was a seminary student in Fort Worth, I worked in the roofing industry.  I had put roofs on homes through college to help support myself and so when I applied t
o the seminary, I found a job that I knew.  One of the most basic principles of roofing is understanding that water runs down hill.  If there is any possible way for water to answer the call of gravity, it will.  If there is the slightest vulnerability in a roof, water will capitalize on it.

Water naturally flows down filling any and all voids.

When I consider Yancey’s quote, this is the mental picture I get – water filling all available voids.

God’s grace is like that.  When we seek God first, God offers that grace and it flows in filling all available voids.  The hurts, the mistakes, the emptiness – filled and covered!

What a sense of relief to know that God’s grace flows to the lowest part of us – filling us from the bottom up.

Create space today to allow God’s grace to fill it!