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. I am sorry to inform you that my own attempts at pottery were a miserable failure. When I saw my teacher doing it, it all looked so simple. He simply threw the clay onto the revolving wheel and within moments he was shaping a beautiful pot. What could possibly go wrong? But as soon as I had a go, the clay seemed to acquire a mind of its own. I never did manage to get the hang of it. On a number of occasions, whilst I was sitting at the wheel with my hideous misshapen pot, he would put his hands round my hands and, incredibly, a wonderful pot would emerge. How did he do it? I never found out! The sight of a potter sitting at his wheel would have been a familiar one in Jeremiah’s day. Go