October 2, 2023 … God’s Masterpiece In Me …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Danny Gokey, singing … Masterpiece … Powerfully singing of how God is creating a masterpiece of His recreation in all born again Christians.   

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Highlight Passage: … Ephesians 2:10  [NLT] … 

10 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.. 

…The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about how our God remakes all born-again Christians into Christ’s images.                            

               

Highlight Passage (Context): … Ephesians 2:1-10  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…Paul teaches fellow Christians how we are made over into the image of Christ.                         

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 139:13-14  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of how God has fashioned us in our mother’s womb into a masterpiece of His love and grace.     

Reference Passage: …Isaiah 64:8 [NLT] …  

8 And yet, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You are the Potter.  We all are formed by Your hand.  

… God, thru Isaiah, shows that our God fashions us as a potter does His clay.

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 4:24 [NLT] … 

24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.. 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to put on the new nature where God has recreated His chosen ones to be like our Lord.              .          

Reference Passage </u>: … Philippians 1:6  [NLT] … 

6 And I am certain that God, Who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.  

…Paul encourages fellow Christians that our God will complete His work in us to remake us into the masterpiece of Christlikeness.           

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 2:21  [NLT] … 

21 If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 

… We are recreated to be pure and useable tools, … used for Christ’s good works.    

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread< author, Kenneth Peterson … AT THIS LINK …  describes how Arthur C. Brooks, described how  in guide in the National Palace Museum Taiwan asked visitors, including Brooks, …“What do you think of when I ask you to imagine a work of art yet to be started?” Brooks said, “An empty canvas, I guess.” The guide replied, “There’s another way to view it: The art already exists, and the job of artists is simply to reveal it.” 

And if my readers today have meditated on the Scriptures above, we see that God’s word clearly reinforces the image of our God recreating in all born-again Christians the ability to use our new, Christlike, nature for His good works.  And that is my prayer today for all of us who’ve surrendered to our Lord;  i.e.,  … to be made-over in Christ’s image … to be His masterpiece, … used for His glorious works.    

      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for remaking me in Your images for Your glory.                        

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to be used for Your glorious works, dear Lord.    … Amen

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