The Potter's Hands

“O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand."

Jeremiah 18:6 (New Living Translation)

I find that this is a really encouraging promise, yet a very challenging one. We are but the clay, and that is all we were made from and God molded and created us. Now He continues to mold us, break us, rebuild us. When a potter goes wrong, he does to throw the clay away and say 'This clay is useless, I cannot use it.' However he places it back upon wheel and rebuilds it into something that the potter is happy with.

So it is with God, when we mess up and get it wrong, God does not write us off, but He starts again. Rebuilding us slowly until He is happy with what He has made. That may never happen on Earth, but one day we will all be God's finished product. Someone whom He is well pleased with.

But until that day, we must have open hearts to change and receive. We must allow God to mold us and change us and fix us. Without an open heart we become like dried out clay, hard to use. For God does change and bless those who do not want to be changed and blessed.

We must come to the Potter and be like clay. Open hearted and ready for God to mold us, break us, fix us, rebuild us.