God desires to use us more than He is already using us now but there many things in our lives that hinder him from using us more than He desires. It is the cry or many believers for God to use them, but the cry should be for God to make us more usable to Him.
We read
in 2Tim 2:20-24 that in a large house there are vessels of various kinds, wood,
clay and gold, some for noble use and others for ignoble use, e.g the garbage
bin. It continues to say that if you want Christ to use you for His best or highest
purpose and for every good work, there is only one thing we need to do, and
that is to cleanse ourselves. It continues to tell us what we are to cleanse
ourselves from if we are to be more usable to God.
1.
Youthful lusts.
The first thing we need to cleanse ourselves from
is the youthful desires and anything that stimulates these lusts if we are to
be usable to God. Fornications and lustful thoughts are among the first of the
youthful lusts. If you want to be more usable, run away from movies, magazines,
sites and anything else that stimulate these passions. The desire also to
appear great among the peers and we should instead use our time and energy to
pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace along with other believers who call
the Lord from a pure heart.
2.
Foolish and stupid arguments.
Whenever
we involve ourselves in any type of arguments, it will lead to quarrels, break
of fellowship and it will only prove who is cleverer among those who were arguing.
These will never lead anyone to the truth. We must therefore cleanse ourselves
from every form of arguing.
3.
Removing worthless word from our
everyday speech and speaking only what is precious.
God told
Jeremiah that if he speaks words that are precious and not worthless words, God
will make like His mouth. Jer 15:19. This means that the words Jeremiah were to
speak would be backed up by Gods authority. Many desire that God would use
their tongues on Sunday when they use their tongues to gossip and backbite and
criticize and finding fault with other people on Monday and Tuesday and other
days. God will never use our tongues if we give it to the devil the rest of our
days. He has to have each and every day. Let us therefore cleanse ourselves from
every worthless word from our speech. If fact James says what if we say we are Christians
or think ourselves to be spiritual yet we cannot control our tongues, our Christianity
is worthless and useless. James 1:26 and he also says that if we can control
our tongue, we can also control every other part of the body. James 3:2
4.
Faithfulness in money.
Jesus
said that if we are not faithful with money, he would not give us the true riches.
Luke 16:11
If we
are to be more usable to God, he will have to give us the true riches. These true
riches are not given to everyone but only to those who are faithful with money.
Faithfulness with money includes earning money righteously, repaying our debts
and using the money we have careful not wasting it. We need to cleanse
ourselves in the areas of our handling or usage of money that God convicts us
of.
The true
riches include but not limited to, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, revelation
on God’s word and conformity to the image of Christ in attitudes, motives,
speech, character and every way.
5.
Humility
Jesus
prayed in Mathew 11:25 thanking God for hiding certain thing from the wise and
the cleaver and revealing them unto the babes. The problem was not the wisdom
and cleverness because it is God who gives these as gifts, but it is the pride in
the wisdom and cleverness. These things are only revealed to babes. The primary
characteristics of babes is humility and freedom from hypocrisy, that is,
pretending to be something before others which is not true in private. Hypocrisy
and pride are the biggest hindrances to us becoming more usable to God.
Let
us therefore cleanse ourselves from every form of pride in us and from
hypocrisy of every kind if we are to be more usable to God.
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