One of the most blessed joys on entering into this relationship with God is also entering into His Work. Being a blessing to others and spreading the Word of God gives us such a purpose and joy in this life before receiving the ultimate joy in our next. The one thing we have to remember is that we must enter into God’s work the same way we entered into God’s Salvation and that was through His Grace. We did not earn our salvation nor do we earn the ability to do works for God. The only works that will be accredited to our accounts at the end of our lives are the works that we were obedient to allow the Lord to work through our vessel. Many have settled for doing works on their own accord and claiming that this was for the glory of God. Let’s take a look at what a vessel is to see the simplicity of our contribution. A vessel is a container used by a higher being to function in a capacity desired by that higher being. In plain we tend to use a vase as a vessel to store water and flowers. The vase had no choice in the matter, whether it would hold water, dirt, flowers, coins, candy, or sand. The vases job is just to be obedient in functioning as what the higher being calls it to be. The most important part to this simplistic equation is that the vessel and the contents of the vessel can never be the same material. A vessel that is full of the same material that it is made of can no longer be a functioning tool for the higher being. So a glass vase that is filled with glass is no longer a vase but becomes a sculpture, while it may be very pretty and appealing to the eye, it cannot serve the many functions the higher being may wish to use it for. In other words we as vessels of God cannot be filled with ourselves when we are functioning in God’s Will, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit something that is contrary to our flesh. We should allow our Father to fill up our vessels with the Holy Spirit and to over flow the work through us, instead of being full of ourselves and doing meaningless works!!! Be encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of being a vessel God can Use on purpose!!!!!
John 14
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Jesus the Way to the Father
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
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