God’s people have always been good at running from him. Jeremiah was one of the people God sent to remind them that God was real and that they needed him, and that he wanted them back. So he sent Jeremiah to the home of a potter. When Jeremiah arrived, the piece of clay in the potter’s hands was misshapen and ruined. As Jeremiah watched, the potter reworked the same clay into something beautiful, an altogether different vessel. As Jeremiah walked away, God asked him, “Can I not do with you as this potter has done? . . . Like the clay in the potter’s hand, so you are in my hand” (Jer. 18:5–6).
