Christ Church Rockville Lenten Devotion
Jer. 3:6-18
Rom. 1:28–2:11
John 5:1-18
One of the readings appointed for today is from Jeremiah 3:6-18. Jeremiah visits the potter’s house to watch him work and, “The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him.”
I saved a passage from an article written by Carolyn Hax, an advice columnist for The Washington Post, on 22 October 2014 that particularly resonated with me, “When people have been shattered, there’s no future, unshattered version of them waiting to emerge. There is only the possibility of their being formed into something new, whole, even beautiful, of the pieces.”
When life chips, cracks, or even smashes to bits the vessel of our lives, the Divine Potter wants to remake us into something new and beautiful if we give Him the chance, even if it might not look like what we expect. After all, the shattered pieces might not be capable of being re-formed into a vessel, but they might be able to create a stunning mosaic.
This Lent, let us give the Divine Potter the opportunity to create new art in us.
