Declaration No. 3: “God will use me.” The primarily goal of Satan’s accusations is intended to convince you that you’re too messed up or too dirty to be used by God. To accomplish this, the devil launches reminders of past mistakes and even words that others have spoken against you. “Look at the things you’ve done,” he’ll taunt. “God can’t possibly use you.” When you buy into his whispers, he effectively silences your voice and paralyzes you into inaction.
One of the most humbling metaphors the Bible uses to describe humans is a clay jar. The comparison is spot on. Like you and me, clay jars are brittle and frail. And upon close inspection, they are flawed, chipped, cracked and covered with imperfections.
But in the same verse that likens us to clay jars, the Bible also provides inconceivable hope: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels [clay jars], the excellency of the power being from God and not from ourselves” (2 Cor. 4:7).
