He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

Next, the potter will dry the vessel and put it in a kiln —a furnace or oven with temperatures ranging between 800-1000 degrees Celsius. The high heat will permanently alter the molecular structure of the clay and will change the vessel from weak and soft to firm and durable. Without the firing process, the vessel will not withstand its intended use, and even the slightest amount of pressure will break it. The writing is polished, as you’d expect from an author with AN Wilson’s experience, but I don’t much care for his style, which is irritatingly affected and often over-elaborate. There are also horribly clunky passages of dialogue or transcribed letters that seemingly serve no purpose other than exposition and feel inauthentic. For we are God’s handiwork,createdin Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to do. Nevertheless, I never stopped admiring the arts and hoped to try pottery one day. So when I realized I would get to watch live pottery I was delighted. But I was also intrigued. What did pottery have to do with the Bible? Well, a ton! In The Potter's Hand, his first novel for more than five years, AN Wilson has taken as his subject Josiah Wedgwood, the great craftsman and industrialist whose factories did so much to transform England in the 18th-century. Wilson is a prolific historian and biographer, with a scope ranging from the Elizabethans to the Victorians, but Wedgwood is a subject particularly close to his heart. Wilson's father was managing director of Wedgwood, his grandfather a master potter; he and his siblings are the first generation of Wilsons not to be industrial potters since the reign of George III.God, as the Master Potter never gives up on us (Jeremiah 18:6). No one is too far gone or too broken that God can’t rescue or heal. If we turn to Him and repent from our sins, He is faithful to forgive us and cleanse us from our sins (1 John 1:9). Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands. House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? ”—this is the LORD’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. Can I not do with you, house of Israel, as this Potter, says LORD JEHOVAH? Behold, like clay in the hands of a potter, so are you in my hands, house of Israel I didn't learn anything about the Darwins who were only present through the stuttering pervert family doctor, Darwin who is a repulsive caricature.

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work. O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” says the LORD. “Look carefully, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.The first step is centering the clay on the wheel. If the clay is not centered correctly, the potter can’t do anything with it, and it will eventually break apart. At first, the clay struggles, and the centrifugal force tries to take it off the center of the wheel. However, the potter holds the clay firmly in place, and eventually, the clay yields and gets balanced. Then theLordGod formeda man from the dust of the groundand breathed into his nostrils the breathof life,and the man became a living being. Yet you,Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. But when the time finally came, I was abysmal. My only achievement in that class was my consistent poor performance. It turned out I was not that kind of creative.