This pottery is around 2000 yrs old. It is from Pompeii that was buried under volcanic ash. It may not be as old as Jeremiah’s prophecy but some of it was probably made in the same manner as described in Jeremiah 18.
There is an Artisan at work in our lives. The scripture from Jeremiah talks of a potter sitting at the lump of clay spinning on his wheel. He has the power to shape the clay into whatever he wishes it to be. We can be the Artisan and shape our lives on what our flesh and the world would have us be or we can allow God to guide our hands in the shaping of our lives. His Holy Spirit will speak to us and let us know the shape we should become. The unsteadiness of our hands shaping the lives we lead will cause the clay that we are made of to collapse if we do not depend on God’s Holy Spirit to shape and form us into the people He calls us to be.
Jeremiah says that God has the house of Israel in the palm of His hand and can shape it into whatever He chooses. Hopefully God is working in this country shaping each of us into His people. Making us a country of people who are willing to witness to and support each other in neighborly love.
Have a blessed, peace filled week, Randy
Wesley United Methodist Church, Orange TX 
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