I desire to be used by God, but as this scripture illustrates, if I want to be useful to Him, I need to cleanse myself from those things that would make me unfruitful. I need to be made holy.
My favorite analogy to illustrate this point is that of my favorite coffee cup. Every morning, I drink a cup of coffee or a cup of tea. For my cup to useful to me, it needs to be clean. If it is not clean, holy, I will put it down and reach for a different cup. My cup is not useful until it is washed.
It is the same way between us and God. To be useful to God we need to be holy in our daily lives. He set us apart, washed us in baptism, gave us His Spirit, and put us on the vine. But now, we need to be holy.
It is not too much for Him to ask. I encourage you to examine your actions to see if they are lining up with scripture. What do you watch? What do you listen to? How do you speak? Being entangled in this world defiles a mans conscience, turning him from the faith.
1 Timothy 1:19 "holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith".
It is hard to serve the Lord wholeheartedly with a guilty conscience. Being set apart from this world and it's pleasures is a great blessing. Being useful to Him is a great blessing. I hope that you may be useful to the Master.
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