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November 14, 2006
You are a masterpiece!
It's true! God's Word says as much! Ephesians 2:10 couldn't say it any clearer. You are God's masterpiece! Created to do good works which God prepared in advance for you to do.
I know, you don't feel like a masterpiece. When you look in the mirror you don't feel like a masterpiece. In those secret places where no one else is allowed in and you know your true self, or what you think is your true self, you know you're not a masterpiece.
But God wants you to know something altogether different. That's not the real you. That you that you think is the real you, is someone who has been defaced by sin. I know not a popular word. But the truth is the truth. Sin has defaced you. Satan's strategy is to steal, kill and destroy and he's been working hard to steal, kill and destroy the real you. If he's got you convinced that defaced person is the real you, he's almost succeeded.
But God wants you to know something different. He created you. Even as an artist creates a masterpiece. Carefully and purposelly. He knit you together in your mother's womb. He planned when, where and even to whom you would be born. He knows the plans he has for you, and they're good! Most important of all, he wants to restore you to masterpiece condition. He wants you to be the real you, that you, yourself, don't even believe exists.
But restoration doesn't come without a price. Cleaning up the damage that years and years of sin might have done takes some work, some time, and it takes involvement. Your involvement. All that needs to be done from God's side to restore you to masterpiece has already been done. All of it. In Jesus, through his life, his death and resurrection, all that needed to be done to restore you to mint condition has been done. One thing remains though. Do you want to be restored?
It's a choice. Your choice. God loves and respects you too much to force you. But he does invite you to a journey of restoration. If you allow him, he'll start and won't stop until you become all you were created to be. This is not just something God wants to do to you. This is a joint effort. He wants you in completely and whole heartedly. You need to be in!
So, do you want to be restored? Will you let the one who created you, who knows the real you restore you? Will you join him in this journey?
Will you enter into that journey with others who are also being restored?
Posted by: ed