Starting Over
Starting over is not something most people want to do. Even when we take a wrong turn or get lost, we want to go forward and find our way without starting over. This tendency is really foolish. It leads us into very difficult circumstances like the ones Israel and Judah experienced in Jeremiah's time.(Jeremiah 18:6) Sometimes, God has to force us to start over, as He forced Israel and Judah. Let's not make God do that to us.
Jeremiah's visit to the Potter's house was significant, because God showed him this truth. The potter could take the clay and make anything. However, if the clay was marred in some way, he had to start over. He crushed the clay to a blob of nothing and put it back on the wheel to begin again. Do you want to get crushed? If we don't want to get crushed, we have two options: stay on track with God's will, keeping His commandments, or when we notice we are going the wrong way, we can go back to the right place and start over with the Lord ourselves. God loves us too much to let us go to destruction without correcting us, but crushing is very painful. I pray that we will not be hard-headed and hard-hearted people, but we will be sensitive people who follow the Lord's way, without Him having to crush us to get us to start over.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Jeremiah 19-22.
Jeremiah's visit to the Potter's house was significant, because God showed him this truth. The potter could take the clay and make anything. However, if the clay was marred in some way, he had to start over. He crushed the clay to a blob of nothing and put it back on the wheel to begin again. Do you want to get crushed? If we don't want to get crushed, we have two options: stay on track with God's will, keeping His commandments, or when we notice we are going the wrong way, we can go back to the right place and start over with the Lord ourselves. God loves us too much to let us go to destruction without correcting us, but crushing is very painful. I pray that we will not be hard-headed and hard-hearted people, but we will be sensitive people who follow the Lord's way, without Him having to crush us to get us to start over.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Jeremiah 19-22.