With the recent success of modern art, beauty is often in the eye of the beholder. This same logic can be applied to self-esteem. If an individual attains success in academics, athletics or socially, this person may feel like a bouquet of roses. On the other hand, if one experiences a regular dose of defeat, failure and setbacks, they might feel like shattered glass, trying to pick up the pieces of their life one day at a time.
While most people think of David as the second king of Israel, he spent several years in isolation, warned by his best friend Jonathon to flee from his jealous father, King Saul. In the psalms, David pours out his heart to God, trying to make sense of the pain he was enduring. This is where we feel David’s raw emotion, “I am forgotten by them as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery,” Psalm 31:12.
Depression is an unfortunate circumstance of life. God allows people to experience trials in life so that they may become mature and complete, James 1:2-4. However, this process includes mess ups, mistakes and unfulfilled expectations. Though you may currently feel like a piece of broken pottery, the Great Potter, Abba Father, has eternal plans to hold you together, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. May the power of Holy Spirit be the spiritual glue to fix our bodies comprised of broken pottery.
by. Jay Mankus
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