The Clay

As Jeremiah watches the potter work, something goes wrong. The clay is marred, yet the potter doesn't discard the flawed clay. Instead, he presses it down and begins reshaping it into something new. God uses this moment to deliver a hope-filled message to Israel: you are marred, but I'm willing to make you new. Their sins—rejecting God, replacing him with idols, offering children as sacrifices, oppressing widows and orphans, stealing and killing—have left them broken and defective. Yet God's hands remain ready to reshape them if they will return and surrender to him...