June 12, 2024 … God’s Mysterious MASTERPIECE …

June 12, 2024 … God’s Mysterious MASTERPIECE …      

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 we Christians are made and shaped by God, in His image, as His MASTERPIECE.  

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Highlight Passage: … Psalms 139:14  [NLT] … 

14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous —how well I know it.           

…  King David reflects and sings of God’s wondrous and mysterious creation of mankind.                                                                                   

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Psalms 139:13-18  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s Spirit, thru King David, writes and sings of mankind being and becoming God’s mysterious masterpiece and HIs reflection of Himself.                                                                    

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:26-27 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s word, from Moses’ reflection shows that mankind was mysteriously and wondrously  fashioned and created in God’s own image.  

Reference Passage: … Job 10:8, 12:10 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK … 

… Job declares his wonder, yet confusion, over God creating us, then putting mankind through what Job was going through. 

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 11:5 [NLT] … 

5 Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, Who does all things. 

… Solomon shows that man can never fully understand God’s workings in creating everything for HIs own glory.    

Reference Passage: … Romans 11:33 [NLT] …  

33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and his ways!. 

… Paul teaches truth about man's inability to ever fully understand God’s ways.

Reference 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.. 

… Paul also teaches about mankind being God’s MASTERPIECE, created to do His good work in His created universe.   

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. 

… Paul teaches Timothy (and us) of mankind becoming and being God’s creative tool in His hands for His glory.          

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Marvin Williams  -  AT THIS LINK  -  relates how neuroscientists have uncovered many wondrous things about the human brain; but, they also know that mankind will never fully understand the workings of God’s masterpiece of creation in the human brain and body.  As God revealed, thru Moses and King David in Genesis 1:26-27 and Psalms 139:13-14, we are fearfully and wonderfully made to reflect God Himself and what we can do for His glory.  

All I’m asking today is for anyone reading here with me to take in and reflect on the linked song and meditate on the Scriptures above; and prayerfully ask ourselves if any of us are becoming what God created in us to be;…  and that is His masterpiece, … reflecting God’s light into this ever-darkening word.    

God fashioned us to be HIs MASTERPIECE OF GLORY; … BUT … ARE WE?   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for using me to reflect Your glory into this word by what I can do for Your Kingdom.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praying today that those who read with me here will join me today to become the “masterpiece” You, God, created us to be.   … Amen

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