Introduction

This is the final week of The Always God series and I hope you have enjoyed it. It’s been fun exploring with you all the ways that God has moved and interacted with His people in the past and learning how He is still moving in these same ways today. You and I can experience God today.

The eternal, self-existent, all-powerful God has not changed over time. He is still “The Great I AM”…and today I want us to look at how God is: Still Restoring.

Illustration Idea: Fixer Upper TV Show

At its height more than 5 million viewers would tune in each week to watch the show and for a short period of time it was the highest rated show on cable television only behind AMC’s The Walking Dead.

People LOVE Chip and Joanna Gaines and they love this show. It has all blossomed into a full blown destination spot for many traveling through Texas.

And the premise behind the show is pretty simple. A couple buys a home that needs repair and renovation…and to the rescue come Chip and Joanna! He leads in the construction and she leads in the design concepts. And of course the climax of the show takes place in the last segment with the great reveal of the new home.

In this passage God is getting Jeremiah’s attention…He wants to teach him a valuable lesson about how He works in His people’s lives and He does it using this real life object lesson of a potter and clay ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium

The potter has power over the clay. And the potter works this clay, forms this clay, molds this clay to take whatever form or shape the potter desires.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.