THE POTTER'S HOUSE

Photo provided by Marion Poole

Arise and go down!  Those are not the words we 

normally want to hear.  We like the mountains, 

we like to focus on the angelic beings, 

we like to meditate in heavenly places. 

Yet these may be the words of the 

Lord for you today.  

The Potters house is a place of 

work, it's a place where we find 

broken vessels, it's a place where we

must stop and examine the vessel to 

see what is wrong with it.  Sometimes

we don't want to admit there is 

anything wrong with the vessel, our 

lives, but the truth is we are only 

human and these vessels are marred.  

Because we live in marred vessels, 

we make bad choices, we say things

at times that we shouldn't, we walk out 

of God's will instead of into his will.  

Many times we feel we are walking 

uprightly and doing what we should 

do and suddenly we find out that we 

are so very wrong and must learn to 

set our focus differently.  

In the hand of the potter, the clay

is powerless yet when the potter has 

completed his work and the display 

is shown it is something of great

beauty.  

Have you ever walked into a pottery 

store and see the vast display being sold. 

Each piece uniquely designed and serving 

a different purpose.  

Are you willing to go down to the Potter's 

house?  A place we must be willing to 

humble ourselves and see the flaws in 

our lives and ask the master designer 

to help reshape our lives so he can 

use us for his divine purpose. 

Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, 

and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Then I went down to the potter’s house, 

and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

And the vessel that he made of clay was 

marred in the hand of the potter: so he 

made it again another vessel, as 

seemed good to the potter to make it.

Then the word of the LORD came 

to me, saying,  O house of Israel, cannot 

I do with you as this potter? saith the 

LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s 

hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

At what instant I shall speak concerning 

a nation, and concerning a kingdom, 

to pluck up, and to pull down, and to 

destroy it;  If that nation, against whom I 

have pronounced, turn from their evil, I 

will repent of the evil that I thought to 

do unto them.

Jeremiah 18:2-8