Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"The Valley of the Son of Hinnom"
Text: Jeremiah 19:2
A SECOND GRAPHIC LESSON
Jeremiah was once instructed to go to a Potter’s workshop (Jeremiah 18). There was a lesson that he learned and then conveyed to the nation of Judah. The Potter can change the shape of the vessel at will. So can God change what He is doing with His people?
In the second lesson involving the Potter and his vessel, there was another lesson to be learned. This was a more serious lesson.
“Thus says the LORD:
‘Go and get a potter’s earthen flask,
and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate;
and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, and say,
‘Hear the word of the LORD,
O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
‘Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place,
that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle.”'”
Jeremiah 19:1-3