“The Potter’s House”

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.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 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.

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. 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 had planned. 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 to do for it.

Jeremiah 18:1-10

God works in our lives by taking us from clay, then forming us, reforming us with heat, until we are just the way He wanted us to be.

God takes the wasted pieces and broken shards of our lives and restores them to worth and meaning.

No matter what messes we have made of our lives, “God can remold us into vessels that are good in His eyes. As we confess any sin and submit ourselves in obedience to His Word, we allow the Master to do His redemptive work in our lives. That is the only way for the pieces of our brokenness to be made whole and good once again.

Broken things can become blessed things if you let God do the mending.

Our Daily Bread – August 13, 2011