Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out reverence for God.
If you were promised pure drinkable water would extend out a dirty glass? Of course not! You would clean your glass before someone started to pour the water in it.
What about when you want God to pour the Holy Spirit in you? Do you offer him a clean glass? Or have you even thought about it this way? I think this is what this verse is talking about.
It's like the woman in the old testament story where she received the miracle of vessels full of oil. Enough to pay all her debts and give enough to live her life. Her miracle relied on her ability to have EMPTY vessels.
We are often looking for a miracle ourselves but how often are we so full of the world's junk we leave no room for God's miracles? It's about time we ask ourselves a simple question.
Got empty?
1 comment:
Good word, how true that is. We are either just empty or so full of self and the world or empty and clean and able to be filled by God but unwilling to be poured out and emptied into others which is the reason to be cleaned and filled so we can be poured out and into others. A filled vessel is full and no longer can be filled until some is emptied out.
Think of your gas tank, you must top it off before that trip and then burn that fuel to get to a destination. Then refuel to get back to your point of origin.
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