Jeremiah
was facing difficult times and the Lord wanted to teach him a special lesson,
so that He could understand why such hard times were coming upon the nation of
Israel. So He sent Jeremiah to the house of the potter where Jeremiah started
to understand God’s truths. Jeremiah saw the skill and wisdom of the potter as
he formed and fashioned a pot on his turning wheel – and as he fired and baked
the pot in the furnace of fire. Through all the twists and turns of the
rotating wheel as well as the heat of baking kiln, the artistry and skill of
the potter was used to shape and mould and form and complete whatever vessel
the potter in his wisdom chose to make. And if the clay in the hands of the
potter was ruined in process – he would set to, to refashion it into another
vessel – a good vessel – a vessel that seems right to him
We
are like that clay that has been taken up by our heavenly Potter to be
fashioned and formed as He thinks best. The daily round of life and the common
tasks we face seem to go round in circles – and the fires of affliction and
pressures of life at times seem hard to bear. But we are His children. We are
the clay in the hands of our Father, Who is shaping, molding, forming and
completing us into the person He wants us to be – a vessel fit for His use.
Sometimes we think we should be up and doing for the Lord, if we are to become
a useful vessel for Him. But the picture of the potter demonstrates that the
vessel that stays patiently in the hands of our heavenly Potter, as He carries
out His best purpose in our lives, is the one that will be formed and fashioned
as is best for us.
Let
us trust ourselves into the hands of our heavenly Potters hands for they
were wounded for us. He will shape us and mold us and fashion us and
form us into the vessel that is best pleasing to Him. But sometimes, as He
turns us on the rotating wheel of life – we become dissatisfied with His
training. Sometime as He squeezes us into the shape of His choice, it can
become so uncomfortable. Sometimes as we are being baked in the fiery kiln
of life – the pressures we face become unbearable – When this happens just
remember that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold
that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Stay Blessed
