Jeremiah 19 - He Broke the Clay

Jeremiah 19 – He Broke the Clay

 

God told Jeremiah to take the clay vessel to the elders of the people and the priests and tell them that because they have worshipped Baal and sacrificed their children to Molech, God is going to break this people like a clay vessel and hand them over to their enemies to be slaughtered and buried in the land of Tophet until there remains no burial place left.

 

Jeremiah did as God said and threw down the clay vessel and it broke in pieces. The people of Judah resisted Potter’s hand for too long.

 

We must not resist but be willing to let God mold us and shape us. To heal our broken spirits, to forgive our sinful nature and to make us into the beautiful people God plans for us to be.

 

Many times, in Judah’s history, when the nation would not yield to God, He made her again. She was marred but still in His hands. She was marred but still had potential. She was marred and He made her again, and He will do the same for anyone who yields to His will. (Rom. (:19-21).

 

However, if the vessel becomes hardened, it cannot be made again. All God can do is break it and that is what He did when Babylon captured Judah. The nation was beyond repair. The Valley of the Son of Hinnom was a site for pagan worship, but Josiah turned it into a garbage dump (2 Kings 23:10). Jeremiah renamed it “the valley of slaughter”.

 

People with hard hearts and stiff necks may be easily broken. All God asks is that we are clean, empty, and available, He will do the rest.

 

 

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