For Kids · 4 min with a grown-up
God had a special way to teach Jeremiah a lesson. He didn't say it with words first — He sent Jeremiah on a little field trip to watch someone work.
Today's Story
One day God said to Jeremiah, “Go down to the potter's house. I have something to show you there.”
So Jeremiah went. A potter is someone who makes pots and bowls and jars out of soft, squishy clay. Jeremiah found the potter sitting at his spinning wheel. The wheel went round and round, and the potter's hands pressed the clay, shaping it taller and rounder.
But then something went wrong. The clay got lumpy and bumpy. The bowl was turning out crooked.
Did the potter throw the clay in the trash? No! He gently pushed it back down into a soft lump. And he started again. His patient hands shaped it once more — until it became a beautiful pot, just the way he wanted.
Then God spoke to Jeremiah's heart. “Do you see? I am like that potter. And my people are like the clay. When their lives go crooked, I don't throw them away. I can shape them again and make them new.”
What a kind God — a God who keeps working on us, gently, until we become something good.
A Big Word
Memory Verse
Talk About It
- The potter didn't throw the lumpy clay away — he shaped it again. How does it feel to know God doesn't give up on us when we mess up?
- Clay has to stay soft and bendy so the potter can shape it. What helps you stay “soft” and ready to let God change you?
- If you were a lump of clay in God's gentle hands, what beautiful thing do you hope He would shape you into?