Do you think Paul knew that his letters would become Scripture, that people would pour over his words so meticulously for thousands of years beyond his own life?  Do you think Peter had any idea that his words would go down in history as the very Words of the Living God?

Peter seemed to know that Paul’s words were powerful, Scripture even.  Did Paul know it? Would he have done anything differently if he had?

If you knew that something that you did today would literally have offshoots that would last for eternity, would it change the way you did that thing?  If you knew that the words you wrote or the actions that you took today would be told of forever, marked in history as profound moments in time, would you do them with zeal?

In the tabernacle in the wilderness, the Lord came upon the finished product with such power that the smoke of His Presence pushed Moses right out of the building. There wasn’t room for them both.  I have a prayer that I pray every time before I speak.  “Drain me of myself, fill me up with You, then make me glass so that all they see is the You in me.”  There is only so much room in each of us.  We all just get our glass-worth.  We fill it up or allow it to be filled with only so much.  For there to be more of God, there must be less of me.

So Christ becomes more important while I become less important.                                                                                                                                  John 3:30

If I do something in this body, it is temporary because it’s maker is temporary.  I cannot produce that which will outlive me by much on the eternal scale.  If God does something, it will last forever because it’s originator lasts forever.  In order for me to do anything that has eternal significance, it has to be done not by me, but by Him.

If I work myself to the bone in service to others and do so apart from the Lord’s will and provision, that service may have great implications, but it will not bear eternal fruit.  If I hand this body over to the sevice of the Lord and He does some of those same things, the ramifications will bear results forever.  If I, like Moses, allow the Lord to push me right out of this tabernacle in which I dwell and fill me up to overflowing with Himself, then He can get to work on that which will truly last.

Did Peter and Paul know the long-lasting ramifications of the things that they were doing?  I think it probably didn’t matter to them if they did.  They were just the instruments , God was the handy man.

I don’t want to be a writer. I want to be a vessel.

I don’t want to be a business man.  I want to be a follower.

I don’t want to be a salesman.  I was to be a delivery boy.

I don’t want to be anything but used.

Drain me of myself.  Fill me up with You. Do that which will last.