

Our editorialĬontent is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. Sales of those products or services we write about. To personally dig into God's Word and allow the Holy Spirit to be yourĪffiliate marketing links, which means we may get paid commission on Statements and make sure they do profess Jesus Christ as God's Son and Special note: We do preview the websites to which we link, butĪre unable to peruse them completely. So are you in My hand, O house of Israel." "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, "Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, So he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make. "Arise and go down to the potter's house,Īnd there I shall announce My words to you."Īnd there he was, making something on the wheel.īut the vessel that he was making of clay The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, This teacup story illustrates what Jeremiah wrote by the inspiration of God: ~ Author Unknown Lesson from the Teacup Story: You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.'" You would not have had any color in your life.Īnd if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven,īut if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel,īut if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. Rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. "'I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be I said, 'That's not me that couldn't be me. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at But the door opened and he took me out and placed me All the time I could see him through the opening, nodding his head saying, 'Not yet.' This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. "Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. "Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began toĬool. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips "I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.' "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. "Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the cup said, I yelled out, 'let me alone,' but he only smiled, 'Not yet.' My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over and There was a time when I was red and I was clay. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful."Īs the lady handed it to them, suddenly the cup spoke.

One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful cup. This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful
