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Perception or to perceive is a certain way of looking at things or people and obtaining and understanding based off of what you see. Perception is very deceptive because we perceive things based on our own previous experiences and knowledge. For example a person can eat a certain type of food and the taste wasn’t good and the next time they are offered that food they perceive the food to be nasty and reject it. The problem is that there are many variables the chef, the ingredients, the quality, the freshness, and the texture all play a part in the taste of the dish. As human beings we perceive others to be good or bad based on our experiences with them but are we truthful? When we look in the mirror do we really perceive ourselves correctly or are we deceiving ourselves?


How do you see yourselves is it based on the opinions of the people or is it based on the views of the creator? An artist will sculpt or paint a picture with a certain idea in mind yet their audience will perceive it completely different from the artist. Since the artist is the creator of the art then only the artist perception of the art is true. A potter sits at their potter wheel with a lump of clay and to the world it is just a lump of clay but to the potter it is already a vase, a cup, or a work of art. The potter already has envisioned the final product and the potter knows what they will create. The potter has already perceived the clay as a finished product and once the potter begins to work the clay begins to take form. God is working in our lives daily already having prepared us as a finished product he is just working out the details. When we perceive ourselves as already finished products then we deceive ourselves into believing that the work of God is finished in our lives. God has not finished working in our lives until we reach the gates of heaven and our soul will take off this mortal body and put on an incorruptible body. God is molding us into the image of his son Jesus Christ and he perceives us as if we were the body of Jesus Christ. The key to it all is having a relationship with God and allowing him to work on you. When you recognize that you’re nothing but clay and that you’re a sinner and only God can fix you then you’re ready to be worked on.

There is a story in the word of God in Luke 18 about a rich young ruler who asked Jesus “what shall I do to inherit internal life?” Jesus is the potter and he is looking at his clay and he perceives rightfully how to mold this young man to be fit for the kingdom of heaven. He tells this young man about five of the Ten Commandments and each one of these commandments relates to how this young man interacts with other people. The young man boldly answered and said he has kept those five commandments from his youth up and Jesus agreed with him. Then Jesus told him that he is missing one thing a relationship with God. The five commandments that Jesus didn’t mention all relate to a person’s relationship with God. People can perceive you as good because horizontally you are good to fellow human beings but vertically you don’t know your creator. This is the way of the cross to love your fellow human being but also to love God. Unfortunately the young man perceived Jesus answer as harsh and walked away sorrowful instead of seeing himself through the eyes of the potter.-Amen

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?-Isaiah 45:8-10

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