Text: Judges 16:21-30
Memory text:
“The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭118‬:‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Today, turning waste to wealth is a thriving business. Waste recycling is a divine principle. Thus, the Potter and the clay is a picture of how God takes what is ordinary, marred, or broken, and turns it into something extraordinary and useful for His glory. It’s the imagery of man’s redemption and transformation.
Everyone who faithfully stays surrendered to God, when life seems cracked or flawed, becomes raw material to showcase His greatness.
“Whenever the pot the potter was working on turned out badly, as sometimes happens when you are working with clay, the potter would simply start over and use the same clay to make another pot.” (Jer 18:4 MSG). Sometimes, when He is working on us and we resist and eventually get marred, cracked, or just come out badly, the Master Potter, doesn’t trash us. Rather, He picks us up, breaks us down, remolds, and reshapes us.
What men call waste, God calls raw material for a miracle.
In construction work, nothing is ever a waste until the project is completed, even wood and iron cutoffs and broken blocks. The ability to turn wastes into something useful without compromising standard is one great quality of a project site manager. Likewise, God doesn’t throw us out as long as we are yielded. He takes the rejected stone and turns it into the chief cornerstone (Psalm 118:22). In God’s hands, broken pieces become building blocks. He only requires yielded faithfulness, not perfection. Faithfulness keeps you on the wheel long enough for God to finish His work.
We are God’s project, and He is still working on us. I strongly believe that if Judas Iscariot had not chosen the path of self-destruction, God would have picked up his pieces and ‘recycled’ him! The restoration of the unfaithful and fallen Samson is proof of this truth. He turned a zero into a hero of faith and a victim into a victor! The same hands that were bound by sin became instruments of victory! (Judg 16:28; Heb 11:32-34).
What about Peter? God turned a coward into a courageous leader. The same mouth that denied Jesus preached Him to nations.
Friends, God doesn’t cancel you for failing, but He calls you again. He never discards — He redesigns! When His mercy meets your repentance, failure loses its power over you. God’s grace finds the broken, but faithfulness allows Him to fix and form the broken into beauty.

Prayer points
1. Father, help me to always yield to Your working in my life and never to resist Your hands, struggle or rebel against You, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, as I surrender now, let Your grace turn my messes into messages, my weakness into strength and my brokenness into beauty, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. I am God’s working project. He won’t discard me for failing, but His grace will redesign me to still fulfill my ultimate purpose. His mercy meets my repentance.
2. God doesn’t see who I am, but He sees who I can become. When men see my end, God begins my comeback. The God of second chances writes my best stories.