Vessels
God and scripture always have a purpose, meant to fill us with godly wisdom. Man tries to replace it with our own meaning, leaning towards our own understanding.
In the Bible, we are often called vessels or jars of clay. Empty shells without God, hollow instead of hallowed. With God, we are hallowed; apart from God, we are hollow. Odd and strange that both terms can sound similar but mean the exact opposite in the context of God.
As someone that once did not fully believe in the spirit and its place in our lives, Scripture didn’t make sense to me, and Scripture can be used in ways that are not godly. In some sense, without proper context and proper meaning, it becomes ways to tarnish or dirty the clothes or vessel. Job 9:31 gives light to this, as His vessels, the world will often try to sully us in ways that contradict our beliefs and our Scripture.
The steadfastness of our spirit during times of trials gives us not only a way to glorify Him but also helps us to differentiate which words are of God and which ones are not. It surfaces scriptural truths that cleanse or polish the scuffs and the scoff that happens to us daily. It makes it so that Scripture is not only about us but rather the one that fills the jars. For without the contents, jars are meaningless because they don’t serve the purpose they are intended for.