LIGHT FROM A BROKEN PITCHER
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Verse for Today
2 Corinthians 4:7 - But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of power will be of God and not from ourselves.
It has pleased God to deposit His glory in our hearts as a great investment and treasure through Jesus Christ. The treasure is in the earthen vessels which are our weak, frail and fragile bodies. This treasure makes our lives the greatest powerhouse and it works in our hearts to guide and control our lives to go forward according to God's eternal purpose. God's purpose in investing this great treasure in our hearts is to see to it that the investment grows and enlarges in its impact and influence. It is not at all in God's plan to allow the earthen vessel to grow and become better. It is like any of us depositing money in a bank, and we want our money to grow and not the bank building. We are least bothered about improving the bank building and get it painted and made more decorated, but to see to it that our investment becomes bigger. So is the case with God, with regard to His treasure in our earthen vessels. So God is not doing any thing to improve our earthen vessel and its environment, but only to sustain it temporarily, to protect and provide for it so that this earthen vessel is kept safe and secure. When God is helping us to multiply the impact of the treasure in our lives and around us, it is our responsibility to submit the vessel for God to use it as a vehicle for Him to accomplish His purpose in and through it. The vessel is not important, but the treasure is, and it should become brighter and impact the lives around us. We are expected to use God's resources to see to it that the treasure expands for the glory of the Lord.
Dear friend, are you spending most of the resources and time God has given you to strengthen and improve the earthen vessel in which God has put His great treasure? Remember, this earthen vessel is decreasing in its glory day by day and one day. There will soon be a time when the growth of this treasure will be examined at the Bema and that's when we will find out how we have used all the time, treasure and talents the Lord has given us to work to allow the treasure to grow in us. Will we be embarrassed and ashamed at that time? Will the Lord find us grown in faith, love, grace, patience and goodness? Or will He find us neglecting the treasure and adore the treasure house? Today is the time to be concerned about it and to do something to make use of this treasure in us. God wants us to grow in faith and love so that we would show forth His power through our lives rather than become more groomed physically and have more material enjoyments. God wants us not to involve much in earthly matters and try to promote our self, but He expects us to put all our efforts at facilitating the growth of our inner man in faith, grace and love. Let us learn not to give the earthen vessel undue importance. Let it not be promoted for its own glory, but allow it to have the role of a container in which God's treasure dwells. Let us be wiling to allow the vessel to go through tests, sufferings and shortages of continuous clean-up so that our inner person will grow more and more in faith to trust God to accomplish what God wants us to be. Just as it was when Gideon and his army of three hundred broke the earthen pitchers, we need to experience brokenness in our spirits for the treasure in us to be seen to the outside world as a powerful light through which those in darkness will see the light of God. When we are truly broken in the shape, colour and strength of our self, the glory that is inside will become visible to others. This is what we should seek to accomplish in this life which is given to us as a gift from God with His purpose embodied in it.
Psalms 51:17 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Thought for Today
Lord! May it please you to continue to break my earthly pitcher so that your light and power in me will be visible to the outside world.
Verse for Today
2 Corinthians 4:7 - But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of power will be of God and not from ourselves.
It has pleased God to deposit His glory in our hearts as a great investment and treasure through Jesus Christ. The treasure is in the earthen vessels which are our weak, frail and fragile bodies. This treasure makes our lives the greatest powerhouse and it works in our hearts to guide and control our lives to go forward according to God's eternal purpose. God's purpose in investing this great treasure in our hearts is to see to it that the investment grows and enlarges in its impact and influence. It is not at all in God's plan to allow the earthen vessel to grow and become better. It is like any of us depositing money in a bank, and we want our money to grow and not the bank building. We are least bothered about improving the bank building and get it painted and made more decorated, but to see to it that our investment becomes bigger. So is the case with God, with regard to His treasure in our earthen vessels. So God is not doing any thing to improve our earthen vessel and its environment, but only to sustain it temporarily, to protect and provide for it so that this earthen vessel is kept safe and secure. When God is helping us to multiply the impact of the treasure in our lives and around us, it is our responsibility to submit the vessel for God to use it as a vehicle for Him to accomplish His purpose in and through it. The vessel is not important, but the treasure is, and it should become brighter and impact the lives around us. We are expected to use God's resources to see to it that the treasure expands for the glory of the Lord.
Dear friend, are you spending most of the resources and time God has given you to strengthen and improve the earthen vessel in which God has put His great treasure? Remember, this earthen vessel is decreasing in its glory day by day and one day. There will soon be a time when the growth of this treasure will be examined at the Bema and that's when we will find out how we have used all the time, treasure and talents the Lord has given us to work to allow the treasure to grow in us. Will we be embarrassed and ashamed at that time? Will the Lord find us grown in faith, love, grace, patience and goodness? Or will He find us neglecting the treasure and adore the treasure house? Today is the time to be concerned about it and to do something to make use of this treasure in us. God wants us to grow in faith and love so that we would show forth His power through our lives rather than become more groomed physically and have more material enjoyments. God wants us not to involve much in earthly matters and try to promote our self, but He expects us to put all our efforts at facilitating the growth of our inner man in faith, grace and love. Let us learn not to give the earthen vessel undue importance. Let it not be promoted for its own glory, but allow it to have the role of a container in which God's treasure dwells. Let us be wiling to allow the vessel to go through tests, sufferings and shortages of continuous clean-up so that our inner person will grow more and more in faith to trust God to accomplish what God wants us to be. Just as it was when Gideon and his army of three hundred broke the earthen pitchers, we need to experience brokenness in our spirits for the treasure in us to be seen to the outside world as a powerful light through which those in darkness will see the light of God. When we are truly broken in the shape, colour and strength of our self, the glory that is inside will become visible to others. This is what we should seek to accomplish in this life which is given to us as a gift from God with His purpose embodied in it.
Psalms 51:17 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Thought for Today
Lord! May it please you to continue to break my earthly pitcher so that your light and power in me will be visible to the outside world.
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