Pot of Oil

In the multiplication of the widow’s pot of oil we have another illustration of the work of the Spirit. It is a lesson of emptying. The poor widow had nothing in the house wherewith to discharge her debt, save a pot of oil.
We also owe a debt we cannot pay.
We are debtors to live after the Spirit,
We are debtors to love one another,
We are debtors to carry the Word both to the Jews and the Greeks, both to the wise and to the unwise.
Nothing of our carnal nature can avail to discharge the debt.
The oil – the Holy Spirit – will alone avail. But as in faith we begin, at G-d’s bidding, to pour it out into the empty vessels around us, we shall find that His supply is an inexhaustible one, and that the only limit is the measure of our expectation.
Go and pay thy debt, and live off the rest.
The power of the Spirit is enough both for life and for service.
Much is said in the Scriptures about oil (202 times), to keep it full and ready in season and out of season.
You never know when you have need of it.
Empty the golden oil out of yourselves, for the more you give the more you will get.