Tupperware

Have you ever realized that we are just containers? Empty vessels just waiting to be filled. The Bible says that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The temple is just a building if there is nothing inside of it. Sure, it may look really extravagant on the outside, a real beauty, but if there is nothing filling up the vastness, it is just a pretty house. Imagine a Tupperware container. Cheap plastic with a cheap plastic lid. Nothing fancy, yet people have been using them to hold their food for decades. The same is true for us. For thousands of years, God has been using us, an empty vessel, as his temple/resting place. Humans, who were formed out of dirt, are the containers God wanted to use to put his spirit. Tupperware is made better by the things that are put inside, just as we are made different by what is put inside of us. The holy spirit comes into our temple and because God's glory is so great, it shines through our meager vessel and people see what is inside. God has put himself in us, it is our job to keep the inside clean so that when people look in, they see the goodness of The Creator, rather than the filth of what was once inside. Admit it, before Christ filled your temple, however old you might have been, there was probably some things that should not have been there. The good news is, when God sends his Holy Spirit into your soul, He fills you to the brink with himself, and pushes everything else out. The good, the bad and the ugly. Your past, washed out. Made clean when God washed away your sins. Every once in a while, you might find a Tupperware that is not clear, but rather stained, making it harder to see inside. These containers are the people who have been filled with God's spirit, yet they have let other things come in and push aside the spirit. Like spaghetti sauce that has been left too long without getting washed out. Things that distract us from the fresh food inside. Things that people see first rather than what you what them to see. Maybe it is time to do some hard scrubbing and make your Tupperware clear and see through once again. Cleaning these containers is rarely easy, especially when the stains have been there a while. Thankfully, it only takes a little faith for God to make you good as new. A brand new Tupperware container clean on the inside and the out, ready to show the world what is truly underneath the surface. So let us become Tupperware for God, rather than assume we are a beautiful masterpiece by our own design. It is God who made us, and it is God who shines through us to do his work. 

"For do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's"- 1 Corinthians 6:19

Adam Semple- A young man on  mission from God