The Believer Is a Vessel<\/p>\n
"If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master’s use" (2Ti_2:20-21).<\/p>\n
1. God’s great demand is for His servants to be clean: Read Isa_52:11. Education, talents, influence–nothing takes precedence over the clean life.<\/p>\n
2. Read Deuteronomy 34. To be unclean is to lose God’s presence and approval. David said: "Create in me a clean heart, * * then will I teach transgressors Thy ways". God can only use clean vessels in His service.<\/p>\n
3. Read the following poem. Better memorize it and recite it.<\/p>\n
"The Master stood in His garden<\/p>\n
Among His lilies so fair,<\/p>\n
Which His own right hand had planted<\/p>\n
And trained with tenderest care.<\/p>\n
"He looked at their snowy pinions,<\/p>\n
And marked with observing eye,<\/p>\n
That His lilies were drooped and fading,<\/p>\n
And their leaves were parched and dry.<\/p>\n
"Close, close to His feet in the pathway,<\/p>\n
All empty, and frail and small<\/p>\n
Was an earthen vessel lying,<\/p>\n
That seemed of no use at all.<\/p>\n
"But the Master saw it, and raised it,<\/p>\n
From the dust in which it lay,<\/p>\n
And said, as He sweetly whispered:<\/p>\n
‘My work it shall do today.’<\/p>\n
"’It is but an earthen vessel,<\/p>\n
But close it is lying to Me,<\/p>\n
It is small, but clean and empty,<\/p>\n
That is all it needs to be.’<\/p>\n
"So forth to the fountain He bore it;<\/p>\n
And filled it to the brim.<\/p>\n
How glad was the earthen vessel<\/p>\n
To be of some use to Him.<\/p>\n
"His own hand drew the water,<\/p>\n
Refreshing His flowers so fair,<\/p>\n
But He used the earthen vessel<\/p>\n
To convey the waters there.<\/p>\n
"And then to itself it whispered,<\/p>\n
As He laid it aside once more:<\/p>\n
‘I still will lie in His pathway<\/p>\n
Just where I was before.<\/p>\n
"’Oh, close would I keep to the Master,<\/p>\n
Clean and empty would I remain,<\/p>\n
For day by day He may use me<\/p>\n
To water His lilies again.’"<\/p>\n
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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