YOU ARE GOD'S MASTERPIECE

YOU ARE GOD'S MASTERPIECE Did you ever stop and think BEFORE that you were born You were nothing? God could have created someone else But out of all the nothings God could have created to mold- MAKE-and LOVE He created you- For ALL of eternity You are GOD'S MASTERPIECE “Whenever the object of clay Which he was making TURNED out badly in his hand He tried again Making of the clay Another object Of WHATEVER sort he pleased” Jeremiah 18:4 I don't know about you- But I can't make Or fix anything with my hands NOT even with the best of tools Fortunately-we have God The MASTER CRAFTSMAN Who can CREATE you and me Out of nothing And FIX us up-and MOLD us Into GOOD clay again When we become Chipped-BROKEN-and misshaped God can STILL turn us back Into a MASTERPIECE From a broken earthly vessel He is the POTTER We are the clay “Yet you Lord-are our FATHER We are the clay You are the potter We are the work Of your hand” Isaiah 64:8 “Does not the potter Have the right to Make out of the SAME lump Of clay Some pottery for SPECIAL purposes And some for common use?” Romans 9:21 WHOEVER we are-whatever we are CHOSEN FOR We are CHOSEN BY GOD For some UNIQUE purpose We are God's MASTERPIECE God's tender hands Has patiently-lovingly WORKED on us He has MOLDED us Into what he wants us to be Using LIFE and the treasures and difficulties We run into-to make us EXACTLY what he wants us to be “COME Let us bow down in worship Let us kneel Before the Lord our MAKER” Psalm 95:6 “Rich and poor Have this in common The Lord IS The MAKER of them all” Proverbs 22:2 And each one of us individuals And all of us COLLECTIVELY ARE God's masterpiece With SPECIAL DESIGNS by God for each And everyone of us He takes us from broken vessels And makes us into WORTHY vessels From his LOVE We must SURRENDER to God Because we CANNOT remake Or fix ourselves I can tell you- That in my case HIS VISION for me Was so much greater Than I ever had on my own BECAUSE I am GOD'S MASTERPIECE And so are you We INVEST in the process And let the OUTCOME up to him Dear Lord-you are the MASTER CRAFTSMAN- SHAPE US into what you want us to be Robert P. Wallman 7-27-16 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Kristin Armstrong