Jeremiah 18:1-9 NIV
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: [2] “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” [3] So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. [4] But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. [5] Then the word of the LORD came to me. [6] He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. [7] If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, [8] and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. [9] And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,

We all probably played with mud, real mud or play dough, whichever you played with, you remember how enjoyable it felt to run your hands through the wet mud and mould something out of it.
Think how painstaking and deliberate the potter takes to fashion the humble mud we step on to become those beautiful porcelain products we admire and buy.
The potter makes the mud into whatever shape and design he wants, the mud has no say in how it turns out. Just as the mud hasn’t got any input in what it becomes, we too cannot tell the Lord (The Potter) what to do, what to make us into, and how we are fashioned.
The potter is one who uses his hand to shape clay into something useful. God is Master Potter who took clay and formed man with a prosperous and powerful result in mind.
God speaks to us in tangible ways using life all around us and if we listen to Him and place our lives in His hands as mud on a potter’s wheel, He fashions us into that beautiful porcelain He wants us to be.
Potter is the person who forms, shape, or fashion a thing.
We try daily to make ourselves into what and who we think we should be, we try constantly to shape ourselves into the image that we think is acceptable, fashioned by our circumstances and experience. We weren’t just made, we were wonderfully and fearfully made, Psalm 139:14, no matter how much blemish the clay has, the potter is still able to squash the clay back into a mound and reshapes it into a likeness that pleases him.
No matter how rough the mud, there is always going to be hope for the tarnished mud, because the potter will never discard the clay, He will merely remould it. In and of itself, the clay was good.
The potter’s wheel is the place of change, the place of transformation and the place of renewal. Regardless of the damage done to our hearts, a new heart can only be granted by the Lord. Ezekiel 36:26.
We are all clay on the potter’s wheel, where God is shaping us into the individual vessels that He wants to use for His glory.
As much as we’ll like to reshape ourselves, we will always be unable to mould ourselves aright, we will therefore need to beg the sovereign Lord to mould us into His way of salvation, and He will not abandon us because we are the work of His hands. Isaiah 64:8.
Vs 6 asked a question that we all need to constantly answer as honestly as we can. Can God not do with you as your maker what He wills? If God can reshape Israel, He certainly can reshape you. Jeremiah 18:6.
The only way we can become the treasures God fashioned out of clay according to 2 Corinthians 4:7 is to constantly remain on the potter’s wheel where only the Lord can help us overcome every struggle with our human frailty, weakness and imperfections.
Whatever change you desire, whatever issues you want changing, the Potter is able to reshape, remake and remould you into the treasure He made you to be.
Shalom