Sunday, February 01, 2009

An earthen vessel I am...

[Leviticus 14:4-7]



The procedure goes something like this: The Priest takes two birds, puts them inside an earthen vessel, stands over running water and kills one of the birds. The other bird is used to purify the lepor and then set free...

2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.


Its amazing the way that God has his hands in our hearts always working in us death [by his law] and life [by his Son]. One part of us dies so that the other part can be set free. For now, I believe that the running water represents time. This is a continuous act of God that never stops...