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The Madness of God

Taken from: Jeremiah 18:1-12; Romans 11:33-36

 
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Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel

The clay, moist and pliable
turns on the wheel;
the potter’s hands work
in sovereign power
to shape his witnesses.
It is utter madness,
or so it seems, to labor
with such pitiful weakness;
with something so
despised and rejected.
It is the madness of God
to display his power and glory
in a place so unexpected;
in a

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Words of Wisdom

“Action without prayer thins out into something merely exterior.” — Eugene Peterson