Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him. Then the word of the Lord came to me: Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, November 26, 2020
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Maybe we’re all just being reworked. The world feels like such a catastrophic mess right now, and has for some time. Could it be that we have taken the raw clay out of which God formed us and caused it to warp and collapse on the potter’s wheel that is life? Have we screwed everything up so badly that it’s time to return to an unformed lump and start all over again? I mean, I know God promised God would never again destroy the world with a flood. But God never said anything about what would happen if we destroyed it ourselves, and us along with it. Perhaps it doesn’t have to come to that on a completely catastrophic level. Perhaps we can be reworked through all the seeming insanity that grips the world, learn from this mess we’ve made, gain the humility to admit it and put ourselves back into the hands of the only One who can salvage it. I hope so. I truly, truly do.
God, I offer myself to you to create a new work, that I might better serve you and my neighbor. Amen.
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