What was their response? Let us work out how we are going to hurt Jeremiah and get rid of him, silence him first, and then destroy him. ‘Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah.
We see the power of the divine Potter. Our role is to be faithful to the Lord, to serve him with all our hearts, to preach the gospel, to teach the gospel in classes, to witness the gospel, to serve him, to study him, to rejoice in him, and to pray, believing with all our hearts that the Potter is at work and is forming something of beauty for himself. He will bring about the fruit and the results. As it comes and people are saved and added to the church, and as people go forth to labour in some other branch of the Lord's vineyard, we don’t think in the slightest, ‘We did that. This is our accomplishment. It is our work. Come and see what we can do.’ That will be the highway to ruin. No, we see the Potter at work. We can't bring about any of this. We must be as faithful as we can be, and God is creating the vessel, the church, as a thing of beauty, just in the shape that he requires it. If we get proud, or draw attention to ourselves, or anything of that kind, and the flaw appears, the divine Potter will reshape the work, and we will be under warning. That is the message. But what an encouragement! We in the hands of God. Let him form all the outcome, and the results, and the work of salvation.