MASTERPIECE

Masterpiece.

Websters dictionary defines this word as:
              1. a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
              2. an artists or craftsman best piece of work.

          The Bible talks about the word masterpiece in the book of Ephesians 2:10, which says "For WE are God's MASTERPIECE, he has created us ANEW in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago". I don't know if you fully understand what God just said about us, his children. He said that we are his masterpiece. That's absolutely mind-blowing to me. According to Websters Dictionary a masterpiece is an artists BEST piece of work. That means that the God of the universe who has millions of things on his mind, never forget about even the smallest person. God took time and hand-crafted, slowly molded us together piece by piece until he looked at what he created and he called it a masterpiece. God took you from a pile of scraps, dirt, nothing but empty and useless clay and took you in his hands and became to form the magnificent person that he knew would one day change the world. God didn't just throw you together in a quick minute and say I'm finished, or yeah, i think this will due. NO! That's not what the lord of the universe is like. He takes time, energy, love, affection, compassion and soul into forming who you will be in your mothers womb. We were made perfectly in the eyes of the lord, without fault, and not broken. We were created so that we may reach the world and full-fill God's plan for our lives.

 

         Do you remember as a kid or maybe you still do them know, the paint by number pictures that they sold at craft stores. I remember walking to the shelf at the craft store and seeing these amazing pictures that looked wonderful on the outside and the box read "all ages". I don't know about you but my end painting never looked like the box that it came in. However; unlike me, God is a much better painter. You see our lives are like a paint-by-numbers picture. God is slowly, beautifully, wonderfully painting and blending different pieces of the picture of our lives. The savior of the world is never finished with the work that he began within us. He continues to add more and more as the days go. We will never get to see the final picture while on earth, but there is hope. Hope comes in when you look at it in a different view. God is never finished with us! When you become depressed after being called names, after being laughed at, after crying yourself to sleep, even in your darkest hours, God is siting there painting away trying to show you the brighter side that's just around the corner if only you continue to keep fighting.
         I struggle daily with believing that I am God's masterpiece. BUT..... when you think about this verse and how God took us from nothing and put us in hands and began to mold us into a masterpiece. The God of the world who has plenty of other things to do took time to stop and carefully create me. When he was finished he looked back at me from a distance and said, " Sam you are my masterpiece, you are the reason that I died on the cross. You my child, were well worth it all". As I look and read more about who God is and the plan he has for my life I come to realize that my painting has just begun. God has so much that he wants to paint. If I only let him continue to let him paint.


~Sam(God's Masterpiece)~