First of all Lord, you are so good to me in time of need. All I have to do is look at you and you are there. When I need your compassion, I feel you drawing me near. When I want reassurance, you encourage me with your words. When I fail you for the day, you have mercy on my soul. Don’t leave me ever without your hand on me Lord.

What kind of container are you and what are you being filled with? You are a container and you are being filled, soon to overflow on someone else. What will they come in contact with? Will it be life giving blessings or selfish acts of rude hatred and darkness? Roots of rejection and bitterness can be broken and the chains of bondage can be severed forever. To start afresh, you must receive the Love of God through His Son Jesus and let the Holy Spirit pour into you new wine. The old wineskin cannot accept the new wine; your wineskin must become new to hold all the blessings.

2 Timothy 2:20-26 (The Message)

20-21In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets—some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage. Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing.

22-26Run away from infantile indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.

Mike Maxson

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