The Potter

 

The Potter

The wheel spins, the pedestal whirls and the clay melts into a vessel fit to be initialed by the potter; not always. Some pots made perfect even before the spinning and whirring stops, shrivels out of proper form as it sits conditioning. It is the potters choice whether to remold the clay or break it into slivers and toss it into the potters fill. Not every lump of clay will bend to the will of the potter. Some appear to be yielding but fall apart with the least stress. Others have lumps hardened by time and are unsuitable for molding. Whatever the lump of clay becomes, it is the potters choice based upon its quality. (Jeremiah 18:4) “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.” So it is with God’s vessels. The clay is made perfect. Aging determines its enduring quality.

Romans 9:11 “(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) [16] So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. [18] Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. [20] Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”

Isaiah 64:8 “But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Certainly Judas was malformed. For thirty pieces of silver he sold out our Savior. The money was blood money and the Jewish counsel rejected it. They put it to a proper use.

Matthew 27:7 “And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Know God, know peace. Amen. 05/11/21 BLL