There are many plans that God plans to do through humans but they are of different, some we can say are good, others are better and others are the best. Therefore being used by God is of different kinds. God uses even the devil to fulfill His purposes; for example God's plan to save the world was through the death of Jesus. God accomplished this by allowing this by allowing the devil incite religion leaders to crucify Christ. Thus we can say that God used the devil to accomplish His purpose of saving the world.
When Christian relax in their faith, many times God uses evil men to awaken them. When you hear a report that there are evil plans being planned to destroy you or your family or your business, that time you will really get serious with God and seek Him. So we can say that God used the wicked men to awaken you to prayer and being serious with the things of God.
But God has greater purposes which He desires to accomplish and we should desire to be used for His highest purposes not just the small purposes.
_2Tim 2:21_
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. You will be the very best in the house—so that Christ himself can use you for his highest purposes.
_2Tim 2:21_ (NASB, TLB).
We see here Paul telling us that there are purposes which are higher than others; and if you want to be used for God's highest purposes, you have to cleanse yourself from sin. _Vs 19._ this is not for preachers, it is for all children of God.
Thus we conclude the the reason God is unable to use us for higher purposes is because we are contented to live in sin. Stop sinning that God will use you
God told Jeremiah in Jer 15:19
...If you speak what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth...
God can make our mouth like His, but the condition is if we remove meaningless words from our speech. Worthless are meaningless words that we speak; for example making promises which we do not intend to fulfill, words which we speak which we do not mean. God tells Jeremiah that if He only spoke what He meant, words which are precious to encourage others not discourage them, if He stops speaking words of gossips and tearing others. If instead of criticizing he interceded, God would make Jeremiah's mouth like His mouth. Even today God has not changed. If you stop making promises which you don't intend to fulfill, if you instead of fault-finding and criticizing, gossiping and speaking evil of others you intercede for them, if instead of speaking words that discourage you speak words that will encourage them, God will make your mouth like His.
Am example of how God's mouth is in creation in Gen one. At the end of every day it says that " God saw that is was good". ( Gen 1:4,10,12,18,21,25 ). At the end of creation God saw that it was "very good"( Gen 1:31
Remember that at verse 2 was a hopeless condition, full of darkness without form.
If God makes your mouth to be like His, He can use you in the life of one who is hopeless, desperate, whose life is shattered and has no future. You speak to him and as you continue doing so, it becomes better and better every moment. Every time you speak, it becomes good and as you continue finally people will look at that same persons condition and see that it has become " very good" from their hopeless condition.
Desire that
Paul continues to tell Timothy.
The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right.
This is God’s way of making us well prepared at every point, fully equipped to do ever good work. ( 2Tim 3:16-17 TLB )
For us to do good work, we must be equipped. Here see that the way God equips us is through the whole Bible. Through it, God teaches us, opens our eyes to see what is wrong with our lives, straighten what is crooked and smoothen us, break our pride and bring us out of the valley of discouragement and self pity, and teach us to do what is right. Then If this is accomplished in us, God will give us everything we need to be useful in His highest purposes.
We need to note that God's first project is us not others. It's only as far as God has been in able to transform us that He can use us to transform others and not any further.
As it is said, you can lead others where you have not reached. Therefore even in sharing God's word, we should only share only what is true in us or only where God has transformed us and not any further, otherwise we will be hypocrites teaching others what is not true in our lives.
We have seen that it *the whole bible not some parts* that God uses. Therefore I want to encourage you if you have never seriously studied the bible to start today. And if you you have read at least once, don't be satisfied, start again.
We are still students in God's school, and the interesting thing in this school is that one who has just joined today, and that who joined 50years ago, even those doing the their pHD, they all have the same text book. For all classes from class one to pHD, the bible is the text book used in all of them. *Don't be satisfied that you studied it 3or ten or even 50times, if you still in God's school, read. Don't drop out of school.*
As you read, don't read so that you can share with others, we so that it's purpose is to teach you and show you what is wrong with you and straighten out what is wrong with you and teach you to walk in righteousness. Make that the goal of your reading. Read with an open heart crying out to God to open your eyes and decide if you see something that is not true in your life, you will ask God to straighten your life that it be according to that word, if you see something wrong with you you will acknowledge it and ask God to help you change not try to twist that word to fit your condition.
If is for the very first time you want to read; I recommend that you start with the New testament from Mathew. Read one chapter a day and highlight the key verses with a pen or a highlighter. It only takes 5minutes of your time.Then take one of the verses you have highlighted for your meditation during the day.
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