Day 7

A softened and submissive heart can be molded again into something good.

‘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.’ (JEREMIAH 18:4)

If a young Christian man came to ask me whether I thought it might be God’s will for him to marry his non-Christian girlfriend, I would direct him to 2 Corinthians 6, where Paul tells believers not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Based on that passage I conclude it would not be God’s will for them to marry. If he went and got married anyway, and came back to say he’d made a huge mistake, I would tell him the will of God is that he stay married. Did God change His mind after they got married? No, the man changed the situation.

The prophet Jeremiah describes seeing a potter at work molding some clay. The pot becomes misshaped, so the potter reworks the clay ‘into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him’ (Jeremiah 18:4). This may not be the original design, but God takes our broken circumstances and molds them into something new. If your life seems broken, or you have deliberately disobeyed God and stepped out of His will, He will remold you into something good as you submit yourself to His work in your life.

Lord, mold me into something beautiful again. I submit my heart to You.