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to do what He is doing. That’s the first thing that He said; that
He was making something. He saw the potter’s mind.

As he watched he saw something else. Jeremiah 18:3, “Then I
went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making
something on the wheel.” He saw the potter’s hands and the
hands were working with the clay; sometimes on the outside
and sometimes on the inside. And He observed a very skillful
hand. Sometimes He would press and sometimes He would
scrape off some clay. Sometimes He would pound it. He would
poke the clay and scrape the clay and move the clay and
sometimes it seemed gentle and sometimes it seemed hard. He
began to see that when the pressure was the greatest the vessel
was most unique.

Jeremiah watched the potter. He saw his mind and that he had
a purpose. He saw his hands and saw that he had skill. But then
he kept looking and he saw something else. The clay was on a
wheel. It was called a throwing wheel. In those days there was
no electric motor. In fact, there were no pedals. They had two
wheels; a small wheel on top and a large wheel on the bottom
and there was a vertical shaft between the two wheels. The clay
was put on the top wheel and you saw the potter’s foot; it was
kicking the wheel. The foot decided how fast it would go. As
he’s watching the potter, he’s watching the clay go around and
around. He sees skillful hands and he sees a controlling foot
moving that wheel. The clay is getting dizzy.

You are the clay! We don’t know what God is doing! We are
spinning around and around and we’re confused. Sometimes
He scrapes us and sometimes there is pressure in our life but
we’re always spinning and wondering what is going on. The
potter knows. The potter is skillful. The potter is in control.
Jeremiah kept looking. The clay didn’t know what was going
on and when he looked he saw something else.

Jeremiah 18:4, “But the vessel that he was making of clay was
spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another