Being Useful For The Master

-October 22, 2024-

Good morning beloved, happy Tuesday,

“Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.”

(2 Timothy 2:21).

Yesterday was the day had to put out my trash cans. I had recently purchased a new TV, which a dear brother in our church helped me to set up. It came in a large box I needed to dispose of. I knew I had to break it down to fit into my recycle can. Every day I walked past it I dreaded the task, thinking I couldn’t it wouldn’t fit in the can.

I tried a box cutter, it didn’t work; then I took of titanium pair of scissors, again no success. Then I thought of my little red paring knife. I use in the kitchen from time to time. To my great delight it worked perfectly. It was so sharp it cut through the heavy cardboard, and it all fit in the can, and I was even able to close the lid all the way.

I told my friend of the little red knife that could. I thought of the children’s story of the little train that could. Then thought how I be used of the Lord to accomplish His work. We can all be vessels for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

We must be clean vessels, available at any time to serve our Master. You don’t have to be the smartest, the strongest, or most skillful—you just need to be available to the Lord, surrendered to His will, and prepared for whatever He gives you to do.

Are you useful to the Master? It should be our prayer today and everyday. The hymn writer Mary E. Maxwell wrote, “Emptied that Thou shouldest fill me, a clean vessel in Thy hand; with no pow’r but as Thou givest graciously with each command.”

I want to be like the little red knife, sharp and ready at anytime to do anything for my precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I must be sanctified, useful for the Master, and prepared for every good work.

Have a blessed day being God’s vessel to the lost and to the saints. Be sharp and ready. Stay and healthy.

The Lord chooses, the Lord uses, the Lord accomplishes His purposes through us.

Dean