The Potter (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! Thank you so much for this privilege of being able to come to you day after day and share the word of God with you and spend a few moments in prayer with you. This week, we are going to spend time in Jeremiah chapter 18, looking at verses 1 through 6. This is a very familiar passage where the Lord speaks to Jeremiah and He send him to the potter’s house, and when Jeremiah goes down to the potter’s house, he sees the potter working at the wheel and the vessel that he was working on was marred in his hand, so he resumes/ restarts the work once again on the clay as it seemed good to the potter to make it. The Lord speaks to Jeremiah and says, ‘Jeremiah, isn’t the house of Israel the same way? Can I not do with you as this potter, Look as the clay is in the potters hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel!’ Now, we understand in Jeremiah chapter 18, God is speaking concerning an entire nation, but we find other references and even in the New Testament- in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 Paul says, we have treasure in earthen vessels or in 2 Timothy chapter 2 Paul talks about us as being vessels of honor. So, He uses that analogy concerning us as people of God as well. We can therefore draw some spiritual insights from this analogy of the potter, the clay, how the potter works on the clay and that’s what we want to do this week. We trust that the insights we draw will encourage our hearts.

First of all, as we look at this example/ illustration, of course we talk about the potter himself. What do we know about the potter? When you think about the clay that is in the hand of the potter, the clay itself is in the right hands- the potter is supreme and when we talk about God as potter, the significance of the potter just increases manyfold. The one who is the potter, He is God. The one who is going to work on our lives, He is Almighty God, He is God who is all wisdom, He is all powerful, He is God who is all knowing, He is God who is so infinite in His wisdom and His power- He is the potter. Should there be any reason for us to be concerned / worried that the potter would make any mistake, or the potter would be incapable of shaping this lump of clay into something meaningful and something wonderful? Surely not! We have nothing to be worried about. So, today and this week as we talk about the potter and the clay, the first thing we must understand is to see the greatness of the potter, the One who is working on our lives as the potter, He is omnipotent God, omniscient God, He is God who is Omnipresent God, He is all powerful. This great, magnificent, Omnipotent One is the One who is working on our lives. This potter can never go wrong. We can rest assured of that.

Let’s pray, Lord we look to you, you are the potter, we are the clay and as the potter, our minds cannot even fathom how great you are, how privileged we are that you, O God are the potter. We couldn’t have asked for anyone else, any other better person, better potter. You, O God are the potter, and we submit to you, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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