Is Your Vessel Clean?

Is your vessel clean?

When we go to do acts of

kindness for others, have

we ruined our witness with

them beforehand? What I

mean by this is, if you tell

the cashier at the "all you

can eat buffet" that your

children are 10 and 11

years old , but they are

really 12 and 13 you have

ruined your witness with

your children. How?

Well you just told them to

lie about their ages to save

a dollar or two. That makes

you an unclean "vessel"

to those children. What if

the neighbors children

overheard from the back

of the line, and they know

how old your children are

because they go to school

together? Pow! another

witness ruined.  And so on

and so on. This is not just

about lying but what if you

told your elderly neighbor

you would repair his broken

window before winter.

Then you get busy and forget.

Does that ruin your witness

with him?  This does not

necessarily mean you

ability to witness as a

Christian either, it could

simply mean that those

peoples trust in you is

blown forevermore.

There are always people

watching, listening,

waiting to trip you up. 

I refer to them as the Devil's advocates.

 

So I ask you this,

when you go to the

cabinet to get a glass

(a vessel if you will ),  

for a drink of water,

if you notice something

in the glass, if it looks dirty,

will you use it or will you

simply put it in the sink

and choose another cleanser

glass (or vessel) to drink from?

 

Ezra 8:28

And I said unto them,

Ye are holy unto the Lord:

The vessels are holy also:

 And the silver and the gold

are free will offering unto

the Lord God of your fathers.

 

In God We Trust

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