Jeremiah 18:1-10

1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 

2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”

3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.

4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me.

6 He said, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter

¡does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,

8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.

9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,

10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

Message Notes

The value is not in the vessel,

the value is in the Potter’s purpose.

Personal transformation in isolation is not spiritual formation.

Your mistakes cannot cancel the Master’s purpose.

God is not looking for a reason to destroy, He’s looking for a reason to restore.

God’s purpose is not merely to make us feel better about ourselves.

God’s purpose is to make us more like Christ.

The wheel is not your graveyard.

The wheel is your workshop.