PERSONL
POTTER
Isaiah
64:8
“Yet,
O Lord, You are our Father. We are the
clay, You are the potter.”
“Go down to the potter’s house, and
there I will give you My message.” God directed Jeremiah, in Jeremiah
18:1. God called Jeremiah to be a
prophet for the people of Judah and Jerusalem.
Times were going to be tough. It was
about five hundred years before Jesus was born.
At the potter’s house, Jeremiah
watched him working at the wheel. “That
looks weird,” Jeremiah commented.
The potter smiled, reworking the creation
he was forming. “It got lopsided.” the
potter admitted as he reshaped the pot.
Jeremiah watched a new pot emerge in front of his eyes. (Jeremiah 18:3-4).
God whispered to Jeremiah, “O House
of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” Jeremiah nodded his head at the invisible
voice, saying nothing to the potter.
“Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of
Israel.” Jeremiah heard.
“If at any time I announce that a
nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that
nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it
the disaster I planned.” (Jeremiah
18:7-8). Jeremiah heard this and
breathed out a whew! The potter began a new pot after
collapsing the old one.
“And if at another time I announce
that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in
My sight and does not obey Me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended
for it.” (Jeremiah 18:9-10). Jeremiah nodded his head at the invisible
voice. He understood God’s message.
Judah was in big trouble! (See lesson linked below to see why).
Jeremiah understood that God was
planning a disaster for Judah and Jerusalem.
(Jeremiah 18:11). Would you
have liked to have had Jeremiah’s job?
It was his job to give tell the people—and try to get them to
repent and turn from their evil ways.
Jeremiah 19:10 says, “I will smash the nation and this city just as the
potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired.”
“Yikes!” Jeremiah gasped as the
potter’s pot splat to the floor.
The potter said, “That’s okay, I’ll
make another.”
Take
Home Nugget
People are to God as clay
is in the potter’s hands. God has all
power over every life, just like the potter has all power over his
creation. He tirelessly and patiently refashions
us into people that resemble Christ.
Then He pours puts His Spirit inside vessels who accept Jesus as Lord. Perfect!
Saints wholly committed to Him.
True works of beauty!
This
is what it means to be “putty in another’s hands.”
J.D. Griffith
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