“So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.” – Jeremiah 18:3-4 (ESV)
I am so often tempted to resist.
My default nature is to reject, often violently, character development and changes to my basic nature.
It’s natural I suppose. As natural as sin at least.
Jeremiah has what most today would consider a miserable ministry. His was a ministry defined by harsh condemnation of Israel’s actions followed by a swift and thorough rejection of whatever it was he was selling that day. He was beaten and jailed for his actions. Yet, he cried to the Lord and said that he couldn’t keep silent. The message was like a fire shut up inside his bones!
This message in Jeremiah 18 is the most powerful section of Jeremiah’s ministry. Here, Jeremiah is telling Israel what God is trying to do.
Why are they so tempted to resist?
Why do they default to rejecting, often violently, the changes God is trying to orchestrate in them?
It comes natural for them. As natural as sin anyway.
Maybe we’re not all that different. Maybe God is trying to work something beautiful in me and in you and we keep spoiling ourselves in the potter’s hand.
God is always all-good all the time. He is reworking us ‘as it seemed good to the potter to do‘.
Why are you fighting that?
