As seemed good to the potter

“And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.” - Jeremiah 18v4

God sent Jeremiah to a potter’s house to give him an object lesson. When Jeremiah went into the house the potter was making something from clay on his wheel. The potter decided to do something else with the clay, smashed it, and started again. The potter was going to make what seemed best to him.

God used the object lesson to tell Jeremiah that He was the Potter and Judah was the clay. God was going to do what was good according to His plan and His dictates. Judah would like the clay moulded by God.

Today we too are like that clay. Sometimes God may reshape us and mould us to be what is best according to what He knows is good. That lump of clay never knows what it will be, or what God will make – but at the end of the day it is for good. So it is with us – God is shaping us “as it seems good to the Potter to make it.”