Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
We are saved because Jesus took the shapeless, dead clay of our lives in His loving, powerful hands, and He molded us into something new for His glory.
With loving care and infinite skill, God shaped us by His grace and wrote His love into our lives.
We are in the hands of the great Maker, the ultimate sculptor who created the universe out of nothing, and he has never yet thrown away the clay on which he has begun a masterwork.
God remakes us into the image of His Son, Gal. 4:19; Rom. 8:29; Eph. 4:24.
We are not perfect the instant we get saved, but we are changed. That change should manifest itself in an ever-increasing holiness before God and before the world.
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“He's still working on me — To make me what I ought to be — It took him just a week to make the moon and stars — The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars — How loving and patient He must be — He's still workin' on me
“There really ought to be a sign upon my heart — Don't judge me yet, there's an unfinished part — But I'll be better just according to His plan — Fashioned by the Master's loving hand.
“In the mirror of His Word — Reflections that I see — Make me wonder why He never gave up on me — But He loves me as I am and helps me when I pray — Remember He's the Potter, I'm the clay.”
Joel Hemphill
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