Garden of your heart

Holy Vessels

Did you know that if you are a believer in Jesus Christ that you are a Holy Vessel?  In Daniel 5 it talked about King Belshazzar using gold and silver goblets that were set apart for a holy purpose to instead be used to drink wine and worship other gods.  Sometimes we do the same thing with our holy vessel. 

II Timothy 2:21 says that we are set apart as holy vessels, useful to the master of the house, set apart for ever good work.  So, how is my vessel looking?

Here are some questions I have been asking myself this week:

1.  In what ways do I or have I used my holy vessel for unholy practices?

2.   What do I do when no one else is watching and I forget that God is rigth there seeing what I am doing?

3.  What do I think or mull over in my mind....the place that I know that others cannot know what I am thinking.  That place that I forget that God already knows my thoughts!  Is there worry?  Angry thoughts?

4.  What do you look at on tv or what movies do I watch?  What do I spend my time doing on the computer?  What do I read in books or magazines?

5.  What do I spend my money on?  (Looking at the checkbook is a good indicator of whether I am focused on myself or generosity).  What do I spend the most time doing?  What do I spend the most time thinking about??

6.  What attitudes do I cherish that in the sight of God are not pleasing?  Are there attitudes of pride, prejudice?  Are there bitter attitudes towards someone else who used me as an unholy vessel?

7.    What thing have I tried and tried and tried to overcome...only to find that I keep going back?  What is it that I keep failing at in a particular area? 

Often times we find excused for these practices/behaviors.  We say....

*well, it's not that bad

*It's only one thing and everyone has to have a vice.

*I will never be perfect anyways

*I have turned over all these other things to the Lord..but I just want to keept his one thing.

*I am just too busy to let God deal with me in this area! 

*I am better than "so and so."  Look at them? 

God's word says "Be Holy as I am Holy."  Not be holy as "that person" is holy!  We need to keep our eyes on our Master, because as soon as we take our eyes off, we get side-tracked by other things.

Godly sorrow leads to repentance.  Repentance brings about change!

We need to put off those unholy practices and put on godly character. 

The following are great passages that talk about this.  Colossions 3:1-17 and Ephesians 4:17-32. 

Let's allow God to wash us clean of those unholy things and let's be a Holy Vessel that God can use!  :)

Let's remember that one day we will be presented as a bride to our bridegroom!  How do you want to look when you meet him?  Tattered, dirty, worn or pure, holy and a vessel that He could use ?