Jeremiah 18:1-2 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
I have always read these verses from the standpoint of destruction—the potter destroying the marred pot—and while there is definitely that element here, as I read it this morning, I also see hope and possibility: God did not throw out the clay of the marred pot. He simply reshaped it “as seemed best to Him.”
Jeremiah 18:3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
This morning God leads me back to the idea of beauty from ashes. A marred pot could definitely be construed as ashes. But God takes those ashes, that marred pot, that lump of clay, and reshapes it, remakes it into something different yet altogether pleasing, into something that “seemed best” to Him.
Jeremiah 18:4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Lord, Thank You for the hope I see in Your word this morning. Thank You that when we are marred, You don’t throw out the lump of clay. Thank You for shaping us, for shaping our lives, as seems best to You. Draw us closer. Amen.
Jeremiah 18:5-6 Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
Have a blessed day.