Jeremiah 18:6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.”
From time immemorial, God has loved using His holy hands to fashion mankind the way a potter works with clay. He even put together the first man out of clay from the marshy ground (Genesis 2:6-7 “ and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”)
What we give in our Potter’s hands He gives life to, doesn’t matter how terribly sick or even dead it might be. When Jesus was walking as a Man among us, He exhibited the life-giving power of God’s hands over what is submitted to Him, when He raised the synagogue ruler’s dead daughter to life (Matthew 9:18, 25 “While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”…..”But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.”)
The pot never leaves the potter’s wheel until it is fully finished according to all that the potter intended it to be. So are we in God’s hands and He won’t ever keep us as unfinished business, but will persistently work on us till we are perfected according to His purposes (Philippians 1:6 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”) The thing to remember is this, that our God doesn’t forsake what is given in His hands even if it is, by nature, non- pliant, because of which there may be manufacturing defects. He may have to tear us down when we are not humble or sensitive to His leading, but only to rework us into better vessels (Jeremiah 18:4 “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.”)
No matter how broken our situations have made us, or how hardened our hearts have been to the Holy Spirit’s working, or even how stiff-necked we have been to receive God’s grace, we need to know that He chose us and prepared us to be vessels of mercy, upon which He will pour out His glory.(Romans 9:23 “and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,”). Let us acknowledge that our rightful place is in the Potter’s hand and let us allow the Holy Spirit to remind us that we can used by Him if we would decide to give up our ways and become malleable to His Kingdom plans for us (2 Timothy 2:21 “Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things [which are dishonorable—disobedient, sinful], he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified [set apart for a special purpose and], useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.)
God Bless.
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