A Useful Container

 

In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only

crystal goblets and silver platters, 

but waste cans and compost buckets — 

some containers used to serve fine meals, 

others to take out the garbage. 

Become the kind of container God can use 

to present any and every kind of gift 

to His guests for their blessing."

 

2 Timothy 2:20-21

 

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I am a vessel,

created to be used,

created to be filled,

created to present gifts

to the guests of God.

To be useful

I must be empty —

empty of myself,

empty of sin,

empty of all that is not from Him.

Lord, I keep filling myself 

with things that harm,

things that hurt,

things that are not from You.

Please help me to empty myself,

to be open and presenting myself to You.

Change the way I think,

so that I desire to serve You and others —

so that I desire to be 

used by You to present 

gifts to others.