Coffee Anyone?

The coffee cup is a created object. It is used for the purpose it was created. It doesn't boast about being used. It doesn't want to be used more often than it is used. It is either being used or waiting quietly to be used.

Imagine...if a coffee cup decided it was more important than what it was created for, it would fall short. "I was created for a dish washing container". Nope. "I was created to be used for a bathtub." "I was created for watering the lawn." No. Well, watering the lawn might happen but it would take forever!

There are times when no one is drinking coffee, tea, hot chocolate etc. The cup sits in the cabinet. It doesn't care. It doesn't scoot itself closer and closer to the edge of the shelf where it might be better seen. Implication being that if it can be seen, it will be used. Eventually, said cup would simply fall off the shelf and shatter, rendering itself useless.

We have ALL been created for a specific use. In Jeremiah 29:11, God says "For I know the plans I have for you" declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future". And in Ephesians 2:10 Paul says "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus which God created in advance for us to do".

We don't need to move ourselves to the visible area, reminding God that we are there. He knows. When it is time to use us, He will get us out of the cabinet Himself. When we try to force a use, eventually we will fall out of the cabinet and shatter.

It is also said that pride comes before the fall. The fall from the "cabinet". We would do well to humble ourselves and believe that God really does know what our intended purpose is. Maybe it's even been happening already. Does a cup really realize it's being used? It's possible it's been happening to you, too!