We are God’s agent to declare His will, WE are NOT our own agent to declare our own
will
Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-10
Jeremiah does a good job of putting the God of the covenant in perspective. He says the Lord
spoke to him and said “…go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My
voice.” So he did and, of course, the potter was working making a clay pot. Verse 4 says,
“And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it
again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. Then the word of the Lord
came to me, saying: ‘O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?’ says the Lord.
‘Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel! The
instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and
to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the
disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak concerning a nation and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not
obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.’”
So here we see in Jeremiah a real solid theological view of our relationship with God. He is
the potter – we’re the clay. In our covenantal relationship, we have the ability to work with
Him and bring to pass His purpose on the earth. God promised Jeremiah at the beginning of
his ministry, “I have set you above all these kingdoms and here is what you are going to do.
You’re going to walk in these six things.” God said, “Behold, I have put My words in your
mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and
to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.” In chapter 18, God helps
Jeremiah understand how the original call works in relationship with the master’s purpose. So
Jeremiah becomes God’s agent in the earth of declaration – not at Jeremiah’s will – but at
God’s will. Through their relationship, God’s will, declared by Jeremiah to the people will
certainly come to pass if they properly respond. The will of the Lord is proclaimed and then
the people have a choice. How do we view the God of the covenant?
Prayer
We have to repent for declaring many things about our nations that are not of
God neither were they from God.