Vessels of Wrath or Vessels of Mercy
Most of us think of ourselves as just our unredeemed selves until Christ comes in and takes over. We do not realize that we have working in us that ‘prince of the power of the air, the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience’ (which Paul says is true of all of us (Ephesians 2:2).
He has so concealed and disguised himself in us as unbelievers, though it says that it is the god of this world in us who has blinded our minds, that we just think we are independent selves. But the truth is that all humanity are vessels. We are containers, and it depends which God is in the vessel. In Romans it says we are either ‘vessels of wrath’ or ‘vessels of mercy’: those who either contain the god through whom wrath is our portion, or those who contain the Savior-God through whom mercy comes to us. This greatly simplifies salvation, for it is merely change of gods, not change of the vessels which contain Him. Or to use that other great illustration, we are either branches of the false vine or of the true. ‘I am the true vine,’ said Jesus, therefore there must be a false one.
Taken from: Who Am I?
