Saturday, January 5, 2013

Plotter shaping from the clay in his hands

Jeremiah 18:1-23
The Lord asked Jeremiah went to the potter's house to see how the plotter shaping from the clay in his hands; the potter formed it shaping it as seems best to him.
So as the Lord has right to treat the nations or kingdoms in his hands. The Lord may change his plan or had intended to do for it, depends on the people doing good or evil.
Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
The Lord warned the people of Judah again, I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions. But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.'
They also make plan against Jeremiah, so Jeremiah pray to the Lord, asked the Lord remember that he stood before God and spoke in their behalf to turn God's wrath away from them. Should good be repaid with evil? Your know,O Lord, all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their cries or blot out their sins from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
This is another dramatized parable. Like the human potter, God has the unquestionable right to remould the spoilt nation.
Why?
Jeremiah's unpopular message leads to threats against his life. He is so touched on the raw by those who spurn his God-given message that he comes out with a really vengeful prayer 'Do not forgive...'. Self-justification, cursing and vengeance in the Psalms' also looks at this issue.
The Lord have plant of mercy, but if people still stiff-necked does not repent their evil way, the judgement will comes upon them, in the time of God's anger.
The time is in God's hands, he is wait for people repent and turn their heart to the Lord, gives them the opportunity for love.
Israel has done most horrible thing among nations, so the Lord turn back to them win the day of their disaster.
How?
How to form a nation, how to shaping a man is in the hands of God like a potter. My hope, my way is in hands of the Lord, do the right things and obey his commands are my responsibility. O Lord, remember what I have stood before you.


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