Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today God sends Jeremiah on a little field trip.

He has him stop in where a potter is making jars.

As the potter is shaping one of them, things get a little wonky with it and he reshapes

it into something new.

Same lump of clay, different outcome.

Then God tells Jeremiah,

here's the message I want you to take away from this.

I'm the potter, the people are clay.

I can do whatever I want with them.

Let Jerusalem know that because of their evil, my plan for them involves disaster.

Then, call them to repent.

But just to remind her before you do all this, they are not going to repent.

They're going to keep doing whatever they want, making their own plans and following

their own hearts.

They've forgotten me.

I can almost hear the heartache in God's voice when He says the last part.

My people have forgotten me.

What's also interesting about this metaphor is how obviously engaged the potter is with

the clay.

This isn't a computerized assembly line.

This is hands-on creative work.

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