God sends Jeremiah down to the potters house to watch the potter work with the clay. What he sees is the potter shaping a pot that will not do what he wants it to do. So the potter takes that clay off of the wheel and starts all over again.
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 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. - Jer. 18:6-10 NIV
We would do well to heed these words. Not just collectively, as a nation, but as individuals as well. We are nothing but clay in the potters hand. If we're soft and pliable, if we let him shape us as he wants, we can become a useful vessel. But, if our nature is more like hard, unmalleable, clay, God may dash us to pieces and start all over again.
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