Jeremiah, the prophet of God, was told to visit the local potter shop to observe. The pot on the wheel was marred and the potter punched it down to start over and create a pot better suited. God asked His people if He could not do as the potter? (Jeremiah 18) We are to be moldable in His Hands but how often do we find ourselves fighting God and deliberately lowering the His Royal Standard and His High Calling upon us?
God tells Jeremiah to buy a clay pot and take some elders and priests of His people out near the Potsherd Gate. This place is the place where God's people defiled their commitment to God by prostituting themselves to other gods. God had Jeremiah throw down the clay pot and as it laid there shattered in pieces, Jeremiah told of how God would smash His people just like the clay pot that cannot be repaired. (Jeremiah 19)
I have been reading Jeremiah of late. Again God is harping on the issue of idol worship. It is like He is shouting because I have come to part of the Word and day after day of reading it is about God's jealous lover's wrath upon His people. The wrath is horrid! Being a first born, lover of rules, and fearful of authority, I cringe at their stiff neck! Then I look at my place and time to figure out where my own idol worship might be. If God is shouting here and I am just like every other person where lessons are hard learned and often repeated in our lives, I better be listening and taking heed myself.
The Church also needs to take this warning to heart as well. We have dumbed down the songs and dumbed down the pastors. We would rather be like everyone else much like the Israelites who wanted to be like every other nation (I Sam 8:20). This should be a warning! Our 'Sabbath' really needs to be viewed as a wedding ceremony / marriage commitment. Our standards need to be raised high because we have a HIGH CALLING. (Phil 3:14) Much is expected from us... I want to be a pot of honor (Rom 9:21).
in His Hands
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