I stood at the edge of the ocean today. Whenever I need reminding of God’s awesome power and majesty, my mind goes there. Water everywhere. Not just any water, but an animated, breathing sea that sustains a multitude of life forms. A seemingly uncontrollable, immeasurable profusion of water. How can this be? How do those pulsing, pounding waves stay just beyond the mound of dunes? Sometimes God lifts His hands and unleashes the water and it races forth, spilling out of its well defined boundaries causing roads to crumble and dunes to fall. And we’re always surprised at this daring display of power. Why is that?
The Holy Spirit is as endless and powerful as the ocean. We can fill ourselves again and again, and yet the supply never diminishes. We are the vessels for this mighty spirit. Every Sunday at our church, before we go our separate paths, we recite our commitment, “I will be vessel for living God’s purpose….”
God can fill any sized vessel, yet I bring a thimble, a tea cup, or if I’m feeling especially holy, a bucket. Whatever I bring, He fills it with His spirit like water overflowing and pouring down the sides. Why do I limit the spirit of God within me? Because I am small. I stand by the ocean and think I am insignificant, yet God’s power exceeds the size of the ocean and if I allow Him, His purposes, great and small, will be completed through me.
2 Corinthians 4:7 (New American Standard Bible)
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
The Holy Spirit is as endless and powerful as the ocean. We can fill ourselves again and again, and yet the supply never diminishes. We are the vessels for this mighty spirit. Every Sunday at our church, before we go our separate paths, we recite our commitment, “I will be vessel for living God’s purpose….”
God can fill any sized vessel, yet I bring a thimble, a tea cup, or if I’m feeling especially holy, a bucket. Whatever I bring, He fills it with His spirit like water overflowing and pouring down the sides. Why do I limit the spirit of God within me? Because I am small. I stand by the ocean and think I am insignificant, yet God’s power exceeds the size of the ocean and if I allow Him, His purposes, great and small, will be completed through me.
2 Corinthians 4:7 (New American Standard Bible)
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
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