He will have His own will done, not because it is His own
will, but because it is good, good for men. And if men will change
and repent, then will He change and repent also. If man will resist
the striving of God's Spirit with him, then will the Lord say: "It
repenteth me that I have made that man." But if a man will repent
him of the evil, then God will repent Him of the evil also. If a man
will let God's Spirit convince him, and will open his ears and hear,
and open his eyes and see, and open his heart to take in the loving
thoughts and the right thoughts, and the penitent and humble
thoughts, which do come to him--you know they do come to you all at
times--then the Lord will repent also, as he repents, and repent
concerning the evil which He has declared concerning that man. So
said the Lord, who cannot change, the same yesterday, to-day, and for
ever, the same now that He was in the days of the flood, to Jeremiah
the prophet, when He moved him to go down to the potter's house, and
watch him there at his work.
And the potter made a vessel--something which would be useful and
good for a certain purpose--but the clay was marred in the hand of
the potter. He was good and skilful; but there was a fault in the
clay.
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