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AT THE POTTER'S HOUSE 

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD : 
"Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. 

Then the word of the LORD came to me: "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

"Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, 'This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.' But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.' " (Source: Jeremiah 18)

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All The Swedish ['n Global too] Christianity is in a time of clay. We have to permit The Potter to do what is to be done with us... We are in the time of clay, and the clay is in the hands of The Potter. He has the skill, he has the design, he has the capacity, competence to do what is to be done. We are to rest in His hands and ask him to give us the gifts of Truth, Grace and Repentance...  

Foot-Note - 'The Potter' - With special License and Greetings (10/04/2006) M'Xp can publish the photo 'The Potter' above. It is one Art Photo from several in 'Images of Ukraine'. Welcome to visit the wonderful artist and photographer from Ukraine and study the Photo gallery By Yuri Lev

[See also: http://missionxp.webblogg.se/2006/april/the-church-time-of-the-potters-wheel.html]