THe Potter And The Clay
Earthen Vessels Jeremiah 18:1-10 But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people. (Isaiah 64:8,9) In our scripture today, we have the image of the potter slaving over a piece of clay seeking to make a caly pota clay pot The potter is God and the clay is us. We see here both Gods grace and power and the seriousnious of our sin. The verdses say that “the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands” (v. 4) marked by sin and saddness. This suggesting that the pot still had some imperfections, and it was not finished. Because of these imperfections, the potter could not get the clay back to what He had first intended for it to look like. Jerimiah here is suggesting that, similarly as we as Gods children continue to rebell against Him , we will not and cannot experience His full blssings on our live...