In Jeremiah 18, God tells Jeremiah to go to the potter's house. When he gets there he sees the potter working a jar. When he saw the way the jar was forming, he didn't like it so he started again and made it into a beautiful jar. God then asks Jeremiah, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?"
God isn't just talking about the nation of Israel here. He is talking about all of us.I'm not much of an artist, so I don't know much about sculpting, but I do know that you put the clay on the wheel and spin it while constantly using your hands to shape it into what you want it to be. We all started out as dust. God just added a little water, and sculpted us out of the dust. Pretty much, we are a lump of clay and God is constantly shaping us. He constantly has His hands on us, pushing us, pulling us, making us into something beautiful.
I love this imagery of us being the clay and God being the Potter. It is really cool if you think about it. Let's say you're going through something really rough. You just feel like you can't last much longer. I just think about that and see God pushing the clay until it is really thin, like about to rip. It is one of those refining seasons. Let's say you have done something and you are just on top of the world. You are just the biggest and baddest person around. God sees that and He says, "Well, that isn't quite what I intended." So, he tears you down, or takes all of it away and starts over again. After all of that refining He has made you into something beautiful and what He intended for you to look like all along.
Just think about this next time something doesn't go your way. Maybe it wasn't what the Potter wanted you to look like, or it wasn't in His will for you. But always remember that even if something doesn't go your way there is always a Light at the end of the tunnel, and the Potter is constantly shaping you to get there.
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