My Noble Spoon

If you and I were to have lunch together, you would notice the twisted spoon with which I feed myself (it inserts into my hand splint). Once, a bus boy picked it up and tried to bend it back to its original shape.  “Oh no,” I told him, “it’s supposed to look like that. It’s bent perfectly so I can use it.” It’s the way God works in our lives. He knows He can better accomplish His unique plan when He bends us to suit His will. Now, certainly, my bent spoon is unlike the rest of the ones in my kitchen drawer, and we might think that we, in our weakness, are unlike all the rest. But in the hand of God we serve an express purpose. The metal of our soul may be difficult to bend, but when we allow God to shape our lives, we discover new depths of purpose for living. You are a chosen vessel for God – perfectly suited for His use. Second Timothy 2:21 says, “If a person cleanses himself… he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.” Even a bent spoon can be noble… if it’s placed in the Master’s hand.