utensils

2 Timothy 2

20 In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, 

and some are made of wood and clay. 

The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, 

and the cheap ones are for everyday use. 

21 If you keep yourself pure, 

you will be a special utensil for honorable use. 

Your life will be clean, 

and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.


Here in America, what with our success orientation & strong sense of entitlement, we would probably all assume that if we kept ourselves pure, we would naturally be one of the expensive utensils used for special things.

All Paul says here is we will be special & would be honorably used for every good work.

He didn't say we would lead glittering & glamorous lives in which whatever we "did for the Lord" would be blindingly successful.

The overwhelming majority of us who serve the Lord live very commonplace lives, being & doing very common, unglamorous, mundane things which are just a small part of the infinitely larger picture of the overarching plan God has for humankind.