BECOMING GOD'S MASTERPIECE

BECOMING GOD'S MASTERPIECE

God has a plan for your life...

Just as you have a plan and a design for your garden, God has a plan for your life. Regardless of how your life may look or feel at this moment, know that God is busy at work on His plan for you. His plan reflects His purposes,His methods, and His timetable. "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11

God's Good Plan is:

*An Adventure. His plan will end in good for you. This truth can offer security and hope despite the ups and downs of life. Let your life be your personal adventure with God. Life is exciting for those who really knows that God loves them.

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6-7

*A Process. We tend to like end results more than the process that gets us there. Like the Israelites, you have to experience the blows before you can experience the blessings.

"For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:17-18

*An Opportunity. Try to profit from every experience that comes your way, the difficult and painful times as well as those times when life is going smoothly.

"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." Hebrews 12:5-8

*A Fact. His plan is an unshakable truth, which can give you a sense of security when life seems anything but secure. God is still on His throne and nothing can interfere with His plans. From our pers- pective, a situation may look hopeless, but from the throne of God, the situation is part of the process that is making you more Christ like and moving you closer to the fulfillment of the good plan God has for you.

"I have loved you with an everlasting love, and with loving kindness have I drawn you unto myself." Jeremiah 31:3

*Purging and Pruning. Before God's plan can come to full fruition in your life, He must eliminate all that is old, dead, and useless in your character. The process can be painful but gives an opportunity to love God by trusting that He is at work in your life to bring about the beauty that He has promised.

"For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer."
Isaiah 54:7-8

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