The Potter's Heart 2
Bible passage: Jeremiah 18:1-6
“1. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2. "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." 3. So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. 5. Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6. "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. "
Objects made by human beings can be roughly divided into products and works of art. Products or commodities are objects for sale and provide material benefits to human life, but works of art are creative artistic creation activities that play a role in improving the value of human life.
The price of a product or commodity is determined by comparison with other objects, but a work of art is something that has a unique value that cannot be compared to anything else. This microphone is a product mass-produced by factories to make money. We bought it at a reasonable price. However, God does not mass-produce people like commodities or products. God made human being a work of art with unique values that can't be compared to anything else in the world.
Unfortunately, humans have left God and are living their lives reduced to one of many other products. God created humans as His work of art with infinite value, but humans have lost their image and form and focused on, ‘Who has more money?
