18:1 上主對我說:
18:2 「你到那陶匠的家去;在那裏我有話交代你。」
18:3 於是我到陶匠家去。我看見他正在轉動輪盤,製造陶器。
18:4 每當手裏所捏的黏土不完美,他就用那塊黏土做成別的器皿。
18:5 後來,上主又對我說:
18:6 「難道我不能按照陶匠處理黏土的方法來處理你們以色列人嗎?你們在我手中就像黏土在陶匠手中。」
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 .
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說到黏土,我們就聯想到創世紀2章7節:「後來,主上帝用地上的塵土造人,把生命的氣吹進他的鼻孔,他就成為有生命的人。」
又想到哥林多後書4章7節:『可是,擁有這屬靈寶物的我們不過是像普通的瓦器,為的要證明這無上的能力是屬於上帝,不是屬於我們。』
的確,我們是受到上帝陶造的瓦器,我們雖然脆弱和易碎,但是上帝竟願將基督藉由聖靈內住,放在我們裡面,使我們由卑賤變成寶貴!
讓我們為此獻上感謝與讚美,也因為有基督,所以我們有不一樣之生命,有永生!
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