Tools for the Task

Tools for the Task

I have quite an assortment of tools around my house and in my garage. There are tools for writing, sewing and gardening, for building and painting, for cooking and cleaning, and for yard work and car care. I do not use all of them equally well; as a matter of fact, some of them are not for my own use at all. I keep them for other hands more skillful than mine. The tools themselves, as they lie waiting to be picked up, have only limited intrinsic value. It is when they are controlled by someone that they are empowered.

The "members" of each person's body, the Scripture says, are instruments of righteousness or unrighteousness, depending on to whom we give control. "Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness." (Romans 6:13) As we live our ordinary day-to-day lives, we yield our bodies to be used as instruments or "tools" for either God's task of redemption in our world or Satan's task of destruction. Which will it be?

In inept hands, the tools in my home produce poor, sometimes ugly, results. But God's hands, when we let Him use us as instruments of righteousness, produce only what is lovely and good and pleasing in His own sight. He has the pattern, and He knows what He intends to do with His tools. Yielded to Him we become a part of His great workmanship!

MaryMartha
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Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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