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Jeremiah chapter 18 verses 5 and 6

then the word of the Lord came to me

oh house of, can I not do with you as this Potter has done?

declares the Lord.

Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand,

so are you and my hand,

O House of Israel.

This is powerful imagery in the book of Jeremiah that describes our lives in the hands of God, like

clay and a potter's hand. And the whole picture here is God can do whatever he desires with clay in his hands,

with our lives. He can mold us and make us and the intent of this imagery is to cause

us to desire God to make and mold us into a noble instrument.

It's a display of his goodness and his glory.

Picture your life this way.

I picture my life this way. I want to be moldable by God, shapeable by God, just totally available

to God in his hands for him to form and fashion me however he desires in a way that I know if I'm

trusting in him, surrender to him, just available to him in that way that he will mold me in a way that is good and right and

glorifying to him and good for me. So see your life that way and let's just pray together then God form us today.

Form us today like this day transform our minds and our desires and our thoughts our affections our words our actions our lives every

fast of them our relationships Lord do whatever you want in us today. We are we are clay in your hands. You're the

potter. We're the clay. We're not in charge. We're clay. You're the potter.

You know what is best. You know what is good for our lives, and we are asking, oh God, make us instruments, make us vessels that display be good for our

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