I Definitely Am a Cracked Pot

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 O that i--such a cracked pot--could keep the Holy Spirit filled in me, like Barnabas. And my only purpose in that would be to help bring folks to Christ, accepting Him as their personal Savior.  At times, i feel i'm not responsible or worthy enough to be saved, but i know that issue i can lay at the foot of the cross. i'm not being very saintly these days, am i Lord?  i should be grateful for so many things You've blessed me with.  Please bless me with an abundance of true-blue saints--ones without egos that are over-inflated---i can be very guilty of that--i suppose it's okay to have an ego, but i need better influences in my life, folks who keep their egos to themselves, so that i may learn to do the same.  Instead of ego and pride, help me to choose joy, love, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Pray for me, Dear Jesus, pray for me.  Who is he who condemns?  It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us--[Romans 8:34] Keep loving me, Lord, even when i don't love others; there's such an invisible line between love and hate; it's almost as if people don't want to be loved because they'd have to love back.  Could that be me?  O how i long for peace and serenity!  i know that i am not walking worthy of You at this particular juncture in my life. --[Colossians 1:10]

i definitely am a cracked pot; so please take advantage of my flaws, dear Lord.  Please take advantage of my flaws, for indeed i have many.  

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of and not of us.  We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair.

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed---

always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. --[2 Corinthians 4: 7-10]



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