Jer 18:1-6
When a person tells me that they are a Catholic or even just a Christian, in my mind … it sounds very definitive, stoic and unchanging. In Jeremiah 18:1-6, God reminds us that when a potter is molding clay and it doesn’t turn out the way he intends for it to turn out, he simple continues to work with the clay until it turns into the vessel he wants it to be. Like the vessel in the potter’s hand, we too are a vessel in God’s hands, through Jesus Christ we are being molded every day into the vessel that God wants us to be. Jesus humbled himself to become man … making perfect the clay which we made imperfect through sin. In our submission to God’s will, we allow our vessels to become what God desires them to be; this journey begins at our baptism and continues throughout our lives. So, what seems stoic, unchanging and definitive at face value, in reality is a very dynamic and changing force at work within us through Jesus Christ.