Page 31 - Evidence of Things Unseen

with gemstones. These are brought out to be set before the highest nobility, and are shown
off as vessels of great beauty and worth. Yet there are other vessels in the same house. There
is common pottery that is used for waste baskets, spittoons, slop jars, and even for
bathroom pee pots. God would choose all His children to be vessels of honor, but, if they
will not submit to His refining work, He can only use them as vessels of dishonor.
I understood these things, and consequently I invited the Lord to bring me to a quick
death to all that was wicked and evil in my life. I wanted to be a purified vessel, and as I was
to find out, our heavenly Father is very willing to purge and purify all those who ask this of
Him. The way has not been easy, and it has been attended by much pain and sorrow, but,
as I look back, these experiences seem to have flown by. The memory of the painful things
is now very distant and muted, and I feel washed by having endured the things the Spirit
has led our family through.