Saturday April 20, 2024
Acts 9:15
“Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles
and kings and the children of Israel.”
It’s remarkable how yesterday’s household goods are today’s collector’s items. Glassware and dish sets that once sold for pennies at a Woolworth store now sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars in antique galleries. Glass made cheaply during the depression era now commands a prized place in museums and private collections.
The Lord isn’t interested in beautiful vessels that sit in display cases to be admired. He chooses us to be vessels to bear His name.
Think of yourself as a cup, a glass, or a bowl. You’re a vessel in the Master’s hand, bearing the water of life to a needy world.
That’s a biblical picture. The apostle Paul was described as a “chosen vessel,” and Paul himself later said of us: “Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work” (2 Timothy 2:20–21).
Don’t worry if you are not beautiful enough to sit in a museum or old enough to be a fine antique. Just live faithfully and bear the water of life to a needy world.
The pierced hand, which gave thee healing, has appointed thee to thy Lord’s
service, and made thee a chosen vessel to bear His Name.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 