Becoming A Vessel Of Honor Rebecca Brown

182 Calvary’s cruel cross, must put sin and defilement out of our lives. Let us purge ourselves so that we may become a ves sel unto honor. (II Timothy 2:21) The choice is yours. Will you become a vessel of honor or of dishonor? There is a little book by Phillip Keller which I strongly urge everyone to obtain and read. In it, Keller beautifully describes a visit to a potter’s home in Pakistan. He watched an expert potter making a vessel:

"Once more the stone began to turn. But just as sud denly it stopped a third time. The potter’s shoulders slumped disconsolately. An abject look of dismay welled up in his tired eyes. In despair he pointed to a deep, ragged gouge that cut an angry gash in the body of the beautiful goblet. It was ruined beyond repair. "In a gesture of frustration and utter futility he crushed the clay down upon the wheel. Beneath his hands it was again a formless mass of mud lying in a dark heap upon the stone." ’And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter’ (Jeremiah. 18:4...) "What will the potter do now? . . . Then the potter turned to look at me from his wobbly stool. His eyes were clouded, sad, like deep wells filled with remorse. He spoke softly, hesitantly. ‘I will just make a crude peasant’s finger bowl from the same clay!’" (In The Master's Hands, by Phillip Keller, Vine Books, 1987, pp. 28-31.) "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour and some to dishonour. IF a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and meet for the

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