The Potter’s Field name changed

A change like it or not

We are always in a process for change. Whether we want it or not change never stops coming. From childhood we go to teen and from teen we go to young adults, to adult and aged adults. We can seek change for ourselves, say one is an alcoholic he goes to the AA meetings. Some places of change are more effective than others. But we know one thing for sure and that is that Christ changes people, and that change endures. Change begins in the heart, the Psalmist said, “Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me” (Ps51:10). This idea for newness has always been in our minds. The process of change is never easy. For some it takes them years to achieve certain changes in themselves, and for others it takes some simple tweaks and their done. Christ centered changes are lifelong or can be if we do not deviate (2Cor5:17). God’s people are always in the verge of change, the Spirit of God is constantly searching the soul to see what changes need to be made before we enter eternity. (1Cor2:10).  

Matthew 27:5-8

⁵ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. ⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. ⁸ Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Judas Iscariot lost his way in Christ. After witnessing and being a part of all the signs and wonders Christ did through him, he refused to change a part in his life was crucial to his destiny of his life, his focus on materialism. He betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver. Once he realized what he had done and what his refusal for change caused him to do, he went and hung himself in a field known as the “potter’s field”. Now, the art of pottery is known in the scriptures for change. Just as the potter takes the clay and squeezes it and molds it, so does God with his people. God sent Jeremiah to the potter’s house and watch, and he noticed that as the potter squeezed the clay and tried to mold it, it went bad in his hands. So, he broke it and remade it. And God said to Jeremiah, can’t I do the same as the potter did with the clay with his people? (Jer18:6). The potter’s house is the place of change for God’s people, and it is full of clay people waiting for a change. In fact, there are so many people waiting for change it has become a field. But what changes a person is the blood of Christ, and so the price for his blood is used to purchase our change. 

Job said that he was like clay in the hands of God, his entire life changed in a moment of time (Jb33:6). Luke says in the book of Hebrews that if the blood of goats and bulls sanctified the people of God, how much more will the blood of the lamb purge our conscience towards good works (He9:13-14). The potter’s field filled with so many empty and broken and undone vessels, was purchased by the blood money of the lamb of God and was renamed. It is called the field of blood, that place where change takes place.