Called and Reshaped

Lee Davis • September 3, 2025

Jeremiah 18:1–11; Luke 14:25–33

Two weeks ago, we stood with a woman Jesus called and straightened after eighteen long years of being bent down. Last week, we heard Jeremiah’s warning about cracked cisterns that can’t hold water and remembered that Christ re-centers us at God’s table, where our place is already secure.


This Sunday, Jeremiah takes us to the potter’s house. The wheel turns, the clay collapses, and yet the potter does not throw it away. He begins again. He reshapes it.


Jesus, meanwhile, tells the crowds that discipleship comes at a cost — that following him means loosening our grip on everything else and allowing ourselves to be remade.


It is not easy to be reshaped. It means yielding to hands that press and stretch, and it means facing the cracks in our lives and in our nation. But it also means trusting that God is not finished with us — that what looks broken can be filled with grace and made new.


As we gather this Sunday, we’ll reflect on what it means to be called and reshaped: not discarded when we fail, not left to our own strength, but remade in God’s hands to hold living water for a thirsty world.

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