Ask Yourself!
• How do you handle assignments, opportunities?
• How do you sow into people? What do you pour into them?
• What do you pour out to people?
• Anything you pour out today will play out tomorrow.
• Those who often hold back, most times don’t move forward.
What You Need To Know About Possession
• They are investment, a contribution either by others or nature.
• Possessions could be acquired or inherited.
• Possession could be visible or invisible — open, revealed, hidden or concealed.
• Possession could be what you own or what owns you.
Ask Yourself Again!
• How did I acquire all that I have? Was it by self-effort?
• Are you the smartest of all your equals?
• What made you smart?
• Was it by the support from others?
• Did I acquire all that I have legally or illegally? Were they acquired peacefully or through violence?
• Did you gain it by pulling others down or by doing good or evil?
• By making others better or by making others bitter?
• Is my possession helping society or killing society? Is it making people move forward or setting people backward?
• Has what I have any value, and can it add value to the society?
Precious Treasures In Clay Vessels
2Corinthians 4:7: “We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves,” (New Living translation, NLT).
Amplified Bible puts it this way: “But we have this precious treasure (the good news about salvation) in (unworthy) earthen vessels (of human frailty), so that the grandeur and surpassing greatness of the power will be (shown to be) from God (His sufficiency) and not from ourselves.”
Man is nothing without God; and anybody can be somebody. In God’s creative setting, no vessel of His is useless. You are not useless, your family is not useless, and that business is not useless, that destiny is not useless.
Sometimes, our today may be small, looking empty and useles;, very possibly unreal, but hear this: “For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the land of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth,” (Zech. 4:10) KJV.
Job 8:6 reads: “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.”
Every Vessel Designed By God Is Precious And Peculiar
• Prov. 14:31 – Even the poor should not be oppressed because God is his maker – Designer
• Psalm 139:14: “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well.”
Two Things You Should Know:
• Everything God created is good (Genesis 1:31). You are God’s creation and you are good. In Timothy 4:4, the scripture says: “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected….
• Everything God created is for a purpose. Prov. 16:4 (New Living translation – NLV): “The Lord has made everything for His own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.” And Christian Standard Bible reads: The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose – even the wicked for the day of disaster.
God Is Ready To Use Any Vessel
No one is too small or too big for God to use. 1Corinth. 1:27: “But God choose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” This is because God’s wisdom is greater than man (Isaiah 55:9).
To God, nothing is useless. You are not useless. What we all need is grace.
2Corinth. 12:9: “And He said to me, my grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
Therefore, don’t look down on any vessel (1Tim. 4:12).
This is in two ways:
• Don’t look down on yourself.
• Don’t look down on others.
Make yourself available. Isaiah 6:8: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I; send me.” Never look down on any one based on the following: weakness, fragility, unworthiness, age, sex, stature, IQ or economic/sociological background.
• Venerable Stephen Wolemonwu is the Rector, Ibru Ecumenical Centre, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State (08035413812)
