Jeremiah 18:4

God wants to make the very best He can of each of His children. He puts us on His wheel, and subjects us to the discipline which He deems most likely to secure our greatest blessedness and usefulness. But alas! How often He finds a marred vessel left on His hands when He desired and sought perfect beauty and strength! This is through no failure on His part, but because some bubble of vanity or grit of self-will has hindered Him.

When this has been the case, He does not cast us utterly away but puts us afresh on the wheel and “forms us into another pot.” If He cannot do what He desired at first, He will still make the best of us; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Yield yourselves afresh to God. Confess that you have marred His work. Humbly ask that He should make you again, as He made Jacob again and Peter and John and Mark.