The caption itself will give you the initiative that what I am about to inscribe. This issue has been rising in my psyche since long time. But the constant demand of my soul to seek an answer to it had leaded me to write my thoughts on it. There have been many instances in bible where we learn that God has turned bad into good. But I want to illustrate it with a story of a tea cups testimony.
A tea cup has a lot of experience to share. It goes like this when I was nothing but clay my master took me, rolled me, and patted me over and over and over. I yelled, “Leave me alone”. But he only smiled and said “Not yet”. Then I was placed on a spinning wheel and spun around and around. I screamed, “Stop it”, I am getting Dizzy. The Master nodded and said ‘Not Yet’. Then he put me in a oven, and I was terribly hot. I thought he would burn me to a crisp. I yelled and knocked on the door. I could see his lips moving as he said, ‘Not Yet’. Finally door was opened and I began to cool. Then suddenly he painted me all over, and the fumes were horrible. I cried, ‘Stop it! Stop it! .He only nodded: ‘Not yet’. I begged, pleaded, screamed, and cried. But he only said ‘Not yet’. Then at the last minute just when I knew I would never make it, he opened the oven and placed me on a shelf and said, ‘Look at yourself’. I was beautiful and really beautiful.
As I gazed at my beauty, my master said: ‘I know it hurt to be rolled and patted, but if I had left, you would have dried up. I know it hurt to be spun around and around. But if had stopped, you would have crumbled. I know it hurt in the oven; if I had stopped you would have cracked I know the fumes were bad when I painted you, if I had stopped you would have been hardened. But now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.
We do not know why we have to suffer. However, when we trust God in the midst of our suffering, he is able to make us stronger persons. God can turn our suffering into victory. Yes when we have reached the end of the rope, it is time to tie a knot and hang on.