The Election Season Does Not Define Us—God Does
Friends, we find ourselves in a political season that highlights every crack and flaw in our society. The airwaves are filled with opposing voices—neighbors arguing, families divided, and friendships strained over political differences. This election season shines a harsh light on our disagreements, making it easy to feel overwhelmed and broken.
God tells the prophet Jeremiah to go to the potter’s house and watch a potter working at the wheel. As Jeremiah watches the clay collapse on the wheel, the potter doesn’t discard it. Instead, the potter shapes it again, molding it into something new and beautiful.
The potter’s wheel reminds us of something important in these divisive times: we are all still works in progress, individuals and communities alike. We are never beyond repair, and neither is our nation. Even during heated debates and profound disagreements, God is not finished with us.
The election season does not define us—God does. As long as we keep ourselves on the potter’s wheel, we can be reshaped into something good. Brokenness will not break us, imperfection will not separate us, and failure is never fatal.
No matter how messy our political conversations become or how fractured our relationships feel, failure does not have the final word. We don’t have to agree on everything to stay on the wheel together. But we must trust that God is in control, molding us—not just individually but as a community—into something good.
Let’s commit to staying on the potter’s wheel together, open to God’s shaping hands. Trusting that the One who shapes us will continue His work, crafting beauty from our brokenness.
Pastor Jamey
Prayer of the Day
Lord, as You guided the prophet Jeremiah to witness the potter’s hands at work, help us see ourselves in that same gentle yet determined shaping. Remind us that we, too, are clay in Your hands—imperfect yet never beyond Your reach.
In this season of division, we choose to stay on Your wheel. Shape our hearts to be open, even in our disagreements. Where there is anger, replace it with patience; where there is hurt, bring healing; and where there is brokenness, form something new and beautiful. Help us to remember that our identity rests not in political labels but in Your love. In Your holy name, we pray, Amen.
