The Divine Potter
Week 3 Essay
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Week 3 Essay
“Jeremiah's message was a mixture of judgment on the sinful nation of Judah; and hope, after judgment and exile, of a new covenant relationship. Comparing the parallels between Judah and the spiritually low tide of our nation today, what message and teaching could be drawn from Jeremiah's portrayal of God as the Divine Potter? In a world fractured by religious, social, political, and culture tensions, how might we Christ Followers relate Paul's concept of "When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son..." (Galatians 4:4 ESV) to an upside down 21st century world?” I furthered my own reading into Jeremiah and did some interesting research into what “The Divine Potter” is online. I came across several websites and my now understanding is basically something that we also use on occasion to defend ourselves or explain ourselves to others. God molded us into his image. So in a sense it goes directly back to when we read in Genesis 1:27 “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”, which in the same sense is the same verse as Isaiah 64:8 “Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” In today’s society we need verses like these to make it through generally every day and young teenager’s especially young teenage girls can benefit from Bible verses such as these when it comes to self-esteem. Especially when the suicide rate has sky rocketed as it has in the past few years among teenagers that are depressed because of the bullying epidemic. It seems that the love of God within the hearts and minds of these youths could have potentially moved them into a different way of thinking and they would have loved themselves enough to stick it out because God did make us. We are like him, we are beautiful, each and every one of us is completely unique because The Lord made us to be like this. Paul
By:
Week 3 Essay
“Jeremiah's message was a mixture of judgment on the sinful nation of Judah; and hope, after judgment and exile, of a new covenant relationship. Comparing the parallels between Judah and the spiritually low tide of our nation today, what message and teaching could be drawn from Jeremiah's portrayal of God as the Divine Potter? In a world fractured by religious, social, political, and culture tensions, how might we Christ Followers relate Paul's concept of "When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son..." (Galatians 4:4 ESV) to an upside down 21st century world?” I furthered my own reading into Jeremiah and did some interesting research into what “The Divine Potter” is online. I came across several websites and my now understanding is basically something that we also use on occasion to defend ourselves or explain ourselves to others. God molded us into his image. So in a sense it goes directly back to when we read in Genesis 1:27 “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”, which in the same sense is the same verse as Isaiah 64:8 “Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” In today’s society we need verses like these to make it through generally every day and young teenager’s especially young teenage girls can benefit from Bible verses such as these when it comes to self-esteem. Especially when the suicide rate has sky rocketed as it has in the past few years among teenagers that are depressed because of the bullying epidemic. It seems that the love of God within the hearts and minds of these youths could have potentially moved them into a different way of thinking and they would have loved themselves enough to stick it out because God did make us. We are like him, we are beautiful, each and every one of us is completely unique because The Lord made us to be like this. Paul