https://odb.org/2023/10/02/the-masterpiece-within
I think whether it is a question of uncovering God’s masterpiece within us or God working in our lives as it is more popularly understood, we still need to do our part. Transformation does not work like a magic wand. In a business, even experienced senior people applying formulas from other places will not work when the market as a whole has changed and moved on. Transformation needs time and effort. What more when the change needs to come from within. Change is not for show or mere lip service. Life changes that make a spiritual difference must be genuine and from deep within us. It’s not a set of moral codes of conduct, but are we becoming better human beings?
As much as Jesus says that His burden is light and His yoke is easy, that He is gentle and humble, we must still carry His yoke (Matthew 11:28-30). We must still be that living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:1). We have to take up our cross and follow Him.
Our job after we have accepted Christ into our lives is to become that masterpiece of God that had already been crafted in the spiritual realm. Let it come out in our earthly natural lives. We have been made for good works since the foundations of the world. Let our true potential be uncovered and fulfilled as we live our lives for God and His glory.
As we start a new week and a new month this week, let’s make it our priority to press on heavenward towards the goal that Christ has set before us and let God uncover His masterpiece within us. Let our full potential in God be fulfilled. Do our part to work with God, to cooperate with His Holy Spirit, forgetting what is behind but only looking ahead like Joshua and Caleb in the Promised Land. Let us clothe ourselves with the armour of God (Ephesians 6:11-13) that we may deflect the enemy’s fiery darts and destroy his shackles and bondages in our lives and the lives of those we are reaching out to. May His will be done here on earth as it is in heaven!
Ronnie's Thoughts 