Reshaping the Pot

                                           

                                                      Reshaping the Pot

Jeremiah 18:1-6  "...The pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hand; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him."

God sent Jeremiah to visit a potter's house and he sees the potter shaping the "marred" clay with his hand, carefully handling the material and forming it into another pot.

The prophet reminds us that God is the skillful Potter and we are the clay.

He is sovereign and can use what He creates to both destroy evil and create beauty in us. God can shape us even when we are  broken. He, the master Potter, can and is willing to create  new and precious pottery from our shattered pieces. He doesn't look at our broken lives and mistakes them as waste to be thrown away.

Instead, He picks up our pieces and reshapes them as He sees fit.

Even in our brokenness we have immense value to our Master Potter.

In His hands, the broken pieces of our lives can be reshaped into beautiful vessels to be used by Him.

Something beautiful, something good

All my confusion He understood

All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife

But He made something beautiful of my life!