The Finished Product

Once upon a time there was a poor starving college student who had the desire to become a great artist. He wanted to move people with the beauty and style of his art. So he signed up to take a pottery class…figuring it would be an easy art to master. The first day he sat down on his potter's wheel, took a ball of clay in his hands, and went straight to work. He molded and worked with it for hours, feeling the rhythm of the wheel, forming a shape in his hands, and smoothing out the uneven spots.
At the end he was covered in clay but he had FINALLY made a pot. The teacher came, studied the pot for a moment, and said "That's good, but I know you can do even better." Then in one dramatic moment the student watched his teacher smash the pot! The teacher didn't want to teach the student just how to make a pot—not to make a common product—but to make a beautiful masterpiece fit for a King’s castle.
Do you ever feel like that art student? Going throughout life, trying hard to do what's right? Trials come, mistakes are made, and your clay pot gets smashed! It’s all a part of enduring to the end…..enduring those smashing-of-the-pot moments because you KNOW that with the Lord’s help, He can make your life better.
Jesus Christ is our Master Teacher. He taught that through faith in Him, repentance, baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and then ENDURING TO THE END…our lives will be beautiful, and the end product will be a masterpiece. Then, like the clay pot, we will be FIT to dwell in His kingdom forever!