That He could make whatever He liked, do whatever He liked. First of all he would have noted that the potter was in total control.And as Jeremiah watched what the potter did, what do you think he would have noticed? And that shapeless, sticky, blobby, smelly lump of clay - well that's you. The Potter represents God's work in our lives. Now this is, hopefully, pretty simple because God gives it away anyway but what this whole illustration is saying is that the master skillful potter is God. He saw a potter, a potter's wheel and he saw clay. And what did Jeremiah see? Basically he saw three things and I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist to get them. So God said to Jeremiah, go down and have a look at the potter and observe what you see. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.' Jeremiah 18:1-6 Then the word of the LORD came to me: O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? declares the LORD. 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.
So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 'This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message. Let's read verses 1-6 and see what God wanted Jeremiah to see. Well in Jeremiah chapter 18 verses 1-6 God says to Jeremiah - Jerry, just come and have a look at this. He would talk about the things that they knew about - he would speak about the sower sowing the seed or a king going into battle with his army. Everyday life contains many sermons and God often teaches us through the simple common tasks that make up our day. Now we will come back to this verse but we are actually going to look at this whole potter and clay illustration in the book of Jeremiah chapter 18. The clay likes to quarrel and to speak back to the potter.
It rebels against the sovereignty of God. God is the potter but mankind often rebels against His authority. Isaiah 45:9 above is a key verse in this chapter because it links God's sovereignty with our normal response. So why would verse 9 be there if the whole context of this chapter about the sovereignty of God? Why would God liken Himself to the Potter and why would He give us, the clay, a warning about quarrelling with our maker? Let's have a look. It tells us that God has a plan, God has a purpose and He is in control.
Now the context of this whole chapter is really the Sovereignty of God. What I want to look at is the potter and the clay and what it means to be clay in the hands of the potter. "Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'? Isaiah 45:9 As the neighborhood butterflies are attracted to my newly planted cauliflowers, so I was attracted to verse 9 which states: Isaiah 45:9 Lesson: The Potter, the Clay & the Sovereignty of GodĪs I read Isaiah 45, there was one verse that really stood out to me.
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