Happy?
How about a new strategy?
COME TO JESUS. BE A VESSEL.
Ask forgiveness. Be wise dealing with temptation.
Yet, know that Jesus has more than just this!
I Timothy 2:20-21 “Now in a large house, there are not only GOLD and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor. Therefore, if any man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for HONOR, sanctified, USEFUL to the Master, prepared for every good work.”
This text teaches us to cleanse ourselves and pursue God. He alone has power to cultivate these qualities in us!
We can be gold vessels because we are Christ’s. We can be vessels of honor because He gives us Himself. We can be useful because He gives us lives of purpose.
IT’S THE HANDS THAT HOLD THE VESSEL THAT MAKE IT SPECIAL!
So it is with us.
JESUS ALWAYS GIVES US SURPASSING VALUE.
Tristie Fisher
Beautiful, my friend!!
“he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master , prepared for every good work” … this is motivation for me. THERE IS a reason to deny the world and be cleaned and walk in His ways… because He USES us. My greatest fear is uselessness, but this is the antidote…
clean people are prepared for good works, Kindgom utlity. Lord, wash us and prepare us for good works today 🙂
…and btw, love your line “the cleansing art of confession.” the art of confession…that’s worth mulling over 🙂 love, ad
Praise God that we are not gorgeous b/c of our heels and handbags- b/c my heels are sooooo out of style and my handbag is full of diapers.
I love the sippy cup pic.
I love the verse 1 Pet 1:7
I love the challenge to be simple.
Serving my kids good food on dirty plates? Never! Ummm… maybe just a crumb or two leftover from lunch if I forget to run the dishwasher b/f dinner.
Love you.
It is the HANDS that hold the vessel that make it special.
I LOVE this line. His hands. It’s that simple. Those beautiful yet scarred hands make me lovely.
Thanks for sharing your gift, Tristie. Happy 2010!!
May I start out by saying, I LOVE the sippy cup as the vessel in the pic. So perfect!!
I enjoyed the simplicity of the truths you pulled out of those verses. I have not had them explained to me quite so simply and beautifully. Seems so obvious. Why didn’t I see it like that before? Inwardly “ornate” by the fruit of the Spirit, yet living simply in our focus and pursuit of God and God alone, and to be as gold, tried and refined, in the trials of life. I want all of it! Thank you Jesus that you are all of these things and therefore I am, even if it is a hazy reflection of them at best. Thank you!
As women we are constantly bombarded with what our outward appearance should look like and how our personal pursuits for success should be defined. All while being a mom and keeping our house ship-shape and husbands filled. The pressures! But to take it and view the simplicity of what beauty and success (or rather life’s focus/vision) truly is in Christ, wow, one experiences a lightening of an inner burden we’ve allowed ourselves to unnecessarily carry. There is such freedom in Christ! I love eternal perspective!! It keeps us grounded.
I was encouraged by your entry.
Your love for God’s Word is beautiful and I can see He uses you in mighty ways. You are one incredibly “ornate “vessel ☺
Blessings