Staying on the Potter’s Wheel
Scripture
Jeremiah 18:3–6 (NLT) “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. Then the Lord gave me this message: ‘O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.’”
Devotion
This weeks sermon kept circling back to one simple cry:
“Lord, keep me on the potter’s wheel.”
The world says, “Get it all together. Be fixed. Be finished.” But God says, “Stay moldable.” In Jeremiah, the clay did not turn out as the potter desired, so he crushed it and started again. That wasn’t rejection; it was mercy. The worst thing that could happen to clay is to be taken off the wheel, hardened, and fired before it’s truly ready.
Spiritually, we often want the “finished product” without the spinning and reshaping. But life with God is not about arriving at a point where we “don’t need changing anymore.” It’s about constantly remaining in His hands, allowing Him to press, smooth, reshape, and restart as many times as He desires.
The sermon reminded us: you’ll never be closer to the Potter than when you’re on the wheel. The spinning that feels like “my life is out of control” may actually be the exact place of God’s precise, intimate work.
Reflection
1. Where in your life right now do you feel like things are “spinning” and out of control?
2. Have you been asking God to stop the spinning more than you’ve been asking Him to shape you through it?
3. In what area might God be lovingly “crushing and remaking” you?
Prayer
Father,
Keep me on the potter’s wheel. Don’t let me harden in my own ways or become “fixed” in my own eyes. Where I have resisted Your reshaping, I repent. Crush what needs to be crushed, remove what needs to be removed, and form in me what looks like Jesus. I surrender again to Your hands. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Jeremiah 18:3–6 (NLT) “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. Then the Lord gave me this message: ‘O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.’”
Devotion
This weeks sermon kept circling back to one simple cry:
“Lord, keep me on the potter’s wheel.”
The world says, “Get it all together. Be fixed. Be finished.” But God says, “Stay moldable.” In Jeremiah, the clay did not turn out as the potter desired, so he crushed it and started again. That wasn’t rejection; it was mercy. The worst thing that could happen to clay is to be taken off the wheel, hardened, and fired before it’s truly ready.
Spiritually, we often want the “finished product” without the spinning and reshaping. But life with God is not about arriving at a point where we “don’t need changing anymore.” It’s about constantly remaining in His hands, allowing Him to press, smooth, reshape, and restart as many times as He desires.
The sermon reminded us: you’ll never be closer to the Potter than when you’re on the wheel. The spinning that feels like “my life is out of control” may actually be the exact place of God’s precise, intimate work.
Reflection
1. Where in your life right now do you feel like things are “spinning” and out of control?
2. Have you been asking God to stop the spinning more than you’ve been asking Him to shape you through it?
3. In what area might God be lovingly “crushing and remaking” you?
Prayer
Father,
Keep me on the potter’s wheel. Don’t let me harden in my own ways or become “fixed” in my own eyes. Where I have resisted Your reshaping, I repent. Crush what needs to be crushed, remove what needs to be removed, and form in me what looks like Jesus. I surrender again to Your hands. In Jesus’ name, amen.