137. Vessel of Wrath
Vessel of Wrath
Let us return to the pottery. We see a pile of vessels laid aside, called vessels of wrath, useless to the potter. They appeared absolutely all right until they were put into the furnace. They came out cracked, they just could not stand the fire. However, the potter will not give them up, he has prepared a certain kind of cement out of blood from a small insect called the fasuka which lives on the body of a bull. The potter takes the blood of the fasuka and mixes it with some powdered broken pottery and cements the cracks in his vessel of wrath. When it passes through the furnace again, it may come out all right, or it may come out broken again. He patiently cements it again and again, but he may finally be obliged to lay it aside and pronounce it a vessel of wrath, of no value, and then he casts it away. Romans 9:22, "What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction."