TOOLS IN THE SHED

2 Timothy 2:21(NLT) If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honourable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.

Have you ever come to the box or shed where you keep your tools and found they were a bit neglected and rusty? Someone put them away without cleaning them off first so they’d be ready to be used next time they opened the shed door and you’ve had to spend time making them fit to be used again!

The other day in a prayer meeting one of the ladies was given a picture by the Lord of a shed and inside were tools. The significance of it was that they were to be clean, sharp and oiled ready to be used in whatever way they were needed.

As we thought about it we knew the Lord was saying we are all tools in His shed and He expects us to be kept clean by the blood of Jesus, to be sharpened by the Word of God, and oiled by His Holy Spirit.

We all know how much harder it is trying to use blunt knives for cooking and my daughter sometimes tells me I need to sharpen my knives!🤣 

I believe God gave that word because it applies to all of us who are born again and have asked Jesus to be the Lord of our lives. If we’ve been in the shed for a while, either a bit tired or neglected, or a tad rusty through lack of use, then we know we’re needing some TLC in order for the Lord to use us. If we recognise that feeling we can go to the Lord and ask Him to wash us clean afresh today, and allow His Word to speak to us where we’re at, and ask the Holy Spirit to pour His anointing oil on us, and into us, once again.

It might mean we have to spend some time letting Him minister to us but if we do that we’ll be ready and waiting for the Lord to open the shed door and take us with Him to do whatever He wants us to do each day, a special treasure for honourable use, clean, sharp and well oiled. I know I want to be like that. How about you?😊Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x

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