Be Still And Know

Jeremiah 18:1-4 The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. My own attempts at pottery were a miserable failure. When I saw my teacher doing it, it all looked so simple. He just threw the clay onto the revolving wheel and within moments he was shaping a beautiful pot. What could possibly go wrong? As soon as I had a go, the clay seemed to acquire a mind of its own and I never managed to get the hang of it. On a number of occasions, while I was sitting at the wheel with my hideous misshapen pot, he would put his hands round mine and, incredibly, a wonderful pot would emerge. How did he do it? The sight of a potter sitting at their wheel would have been a familiar one in Jeremiah’s day. God used this everyday experience to convey a very clear message to