House

2 Tim 2:20In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. 21If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

The Message interprets this passage as:

20-21In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets—some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage. Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing.

But when I read it, I interpreted that our life is like a house. We tend to keep a lot of stuff in our house and some of it is good for us and some of it isn't. Some of us hoard piles of 'stuff' in our lives. Sometimes we need to do some cleaning out!