Cheap Stuff

In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.
2nd Timothy 2:20-21 NLT

I have a confession to make. There are times when reading through the old testament, where the passages about the laws or the numbers seem interminably long so that I want to just skim over and move on. I mean, can you even imagine having to number 603,550 Israelites - let alone record the names of each of those 603,550 Israelites by hand? And that's just the men age 20 and up, fit to fight in the army, not counting the Levites (book of Numbers, Chapters 1 and 2). And here in the 21st Century, we tend to grumble about extra keystrokes.

However, the older I get, the more I appreciate the eye to detail and begin to understand the perfection of it all. God was and is very specific because He is in all the details. He is holy, therefore unclean or unholy cannot abide in His presence apart from the sacrificial blood. In the old testament, more animals were killed than we care to count to shed blood for sins. With more praise and gratitude than I am able to express - thanks to Christ and the Cross of Calvary - we don't have to shed any more blood for sin. And we can come into the Holy of Holies, entering by the Blood of the Lamb.

If we think about it in relation to our Promise for Today, we realize we are no longer the cheap stuff. We have been bought with a price too great! And we must make the necessary choices to remain pure so that we are fit for our purpose - which is honorable use by the Master for every good work.

Prayer:

Father,
         We invite the Holy Spirit to live large in us! We want to be a veritable orchard - full of the fruit of the Spirit - especially self-control - so that we make the righteous choices to remain pure and fit for purpose by You! Help us, O God. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen