God's Vessels...

We are all vessels of the Holy Spirit.

I'm sure you know this. We've learned since early in our Sunday School days that when we become believers in Jesus, when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, that He sends the Holy Spirit to come to us and live in our hearts.

Paul kind of drives this home to us in 1 Corinthians. In 3:16, he writes, “Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?” Again in 6:19, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?”

This is rather incredible fact that we should never forget, and never take for granted. Because it means more than anything else, that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Because God is always with us, we cannot be alone. Because of His continuous presence in the form of the Holy Spirit, we are never without the power to do everything that He has called us to, and that He will always see us through anything that comes our way.

How can we get through life on our own? Why would we want to? God offers His very presence within us. Struggling on in our own power makes no sense, when God is so willing to help.