Jeremiah 18:3-6 Then I
went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. 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. “O house of Israel, can
I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, as the clay is in
the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!
The late Pastor Vernon McGee
lives on through his teaching and recorded radio ministry. In one lesson about
Jeremiah 18, he asks: Why does the Potter (our Maker, Almighty God) put us on
the wheel? Why does He bear down on us at times? Why does He keep working us,
molding us, shaping us? What is He after?
He says to go back with
Jeremiah to the potter’s house. You won’t discover the purpose for your life
there, but you learn something even more important than that. You understand
that the potter ha a purpose. Watch Him – he is serious. He does not play with
the clay; this is his work. He is giving his time, his talents, his energy to
working the clay. Look over his shoulder, you may not know what the finished
piece will look like, but you are convinced the potter knows what he is doing.
McGee tells us: “My friend,
God is not playing with us today. He is not experimenting. He has purpose in
how He is shaping us, and that should comfort us. He has a plan, and He knows what
He is doing. When God puts us on the wheel of circumstance, He means to
accomplish something good. He has purpose.”
The onlooker can’t guess His purpose, neither can the clay under His
hand. But someday we will know.
1 John 3:2 “Beloved, now
we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be,
but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we
shall see Him as He is.”
Some glorious day, you’ll
see the Potter has a purpose in your life all along. In the ages to come we’ll
be on display, revealing what the Potter can do with lifeless clay. God is
shaping us and He gets the glory. It will be wonderful to be a vessel in the Master’s
hand.
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