What is man? If we are to be disciples, one of the things we have to fundamentally understand is that we are creatures, i.e. we were made by Someone greater than ourselves.
The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? (Romans 9:20, 21)
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. (2 Cor. 4:7)
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. (Jeremiah 18:1-6)
There is a risk of oversimplifying things but it is possible to see ourselves as vessels similar to the ones that were at the wedding feast of Cana (John 2) or like the vessels in the scriptures above. Vessels are meant to contain something and, in this way of looking at things, our vessel contains a spirit soul mixture. We were designed to hold the Holy Spirit and only He can properly fill us. We are not talking about something small when we talk about the body being a vessel for a spirit. In the dimensions of the spirit/soul, our bodies are almost inconceivably large and complex. It is quite possible for many spirits to exist in a body as Mary Magdelene experienced (Luke 8:2) and the story of the demoniac with a legion of devils shows (Mark 5:1-20).
Through submission to His will, be filled and overflowing with the Spirit. As He moves in you He will stir up a lot of dirt. So don’t be surprised if in your most “holy” moments of communion with God some completely inappropriate and downright evil things appear. Let them come to the light, confess them and cooperate with God by obedience in dealing with them. Don’t dwell on your evil, look up and out, God is love and to love isn’t to be consumed with care about one’s own personal holiness. Jesus has it sorted.
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