NOTES for Jer 18:1-23

Coming into contact with the mystery of God reveals the human inability to describe that mystery adequately. He is known through paradox. The image of the potter and the clay that he shapes as he wishes paints a picture of God's complete sovereignty over His creation: everything that happens to us depends entirely on Him, and He Himself chooses what to fashion from our lives. Yet at once we see that a person is the maker of his own happiness: his whole life depends on his right conduct. God and man shape the destiny of the world together, taking part in each of its moments, and this is an unfathomable mystery. As Easter approaches, we remember it in a special way: the mystery of our salvation, in which God conquered death, raised all people in Christ, and awaits our response, our joining the new life revealed in His risen Son.