The Unclean Donkey

A strange and Interesting Bible Fact:

 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his enter army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

II Kings 7:24-25 NIV

Note: A donkey was considered an unclean animal; forbidden to Israelites as food. Because of the lengthy and severe famine the people of Samaria disregarded the law of uncleanness and even placed value on the least edible part of a donkey. (NIV study Bible note)

Green Living

A strange and Interesting Bible Fact:

And sometimes the pot breaks--what do you do with it?

Think about the pottery. The potter formed a vessel and if misshapen or flawed, he dropped it to the floor. The broken pieces, known a potsherds, were ‘recycled’ to carry burning coals (Isa 30:14), to scoop water from a cistern, and for note taking or receipts (Jer 32:14). The pieces too small to use elsewhere were ground into grog and used as a tempering agent in a new pot.

If you feel like a broken vessel or the ‘grog,’ look around you. God can use the worst of your life to temper and strengthen another of His vessels.