OCTOBER 16TH, 2021      |    Have you ever had guacamole prepared with a traditional Mexican mortar and pestle? That tool has to be properly conditioned to sand off the rough surface before it can be used. 

Similarly, believers come to the Lord with rough surfaces, dotted with impurity-trapping voids that can potentially taint our ability to present a pure offering to God and spoil the attractiveness of the message of salvation. Therefore, God has to commence the process of conditioning us for service in order to grind off our coarseness. That is, He sends difficulty into our lives to grind away our rough edges. He scrapes and polishes us with “sandpaper” people and pulverizes our impurities with adversity so that our personal lives don’t soil the purity of the gospel.

So when the circumstances of your life are pounding on you again and again, if you are a child of God, they probably are! But the encouragement to every serious believer is to persevere in offering yourself to Christ, knowing that there is purpose to what can feel like the crushing process. He is making you into a useful vessel, clean and ready for service.