In the grand scheme of things, good questions can alter our trajectory. The question for this chapter is, “Are we more concerned with the treasure or the vessel?” Church life can easily morph into be concerned with the vessel. We devote our thoughts to Sunday Mornings, Sunday School, age of music, camp, board meetings, roof lines, sight lines and a list of all the things that are simply a vessel that carries the treasure. More concerned about the vessel than the thing that makes the vessel sacred in the first place.
Life of church activity can begin to replace life with God. We’ve all been there. A reordering of our priorities can be exceptionally useful. Some New Years evaluation is a natural season to consider vessels that may have become more important than the treasure. Invite God into considering how any of the useful vessel in your life have become a replacement for God himself. Repent and move on and live in the great journey of evaluation rooted in the Holy Spirit alive in us.
Here’s to treasures and earthen vessel and their rightful evaluation!!
Truth, Grace, and Time 