Jeremiah 18 | Potter and Clay
This message was recorded from a home livestream due to a snow/ice storm that cancelled in-person services.
The readings are from Psalm 139:1-18 in the Book of Common Prayer (2019), Jeremiah 18:1-12 and Romans 9:14-24 (ESV).
God’s pronouncement through Jeremiah is through the enacted imagery of the potter forming and re-forming the clay. He says to Judah and Jerusalem, that he has the right to reform and start over with them if they do not repent and turn from their idolatry, injustice, and immorality. It is a warning of certain judgment and a call to repentance. God’s sovereign power and predestining purposes are clear in Jeremiah 18 and the associated readings, but they are not to be understood by intellectual reasoning alone. God invites us to know him and his sovereignty in relationship; he is the God we can trust, and he wants us to entrust ourselves to him.
