"I saw the angel in the stone so I carved to set it free" -Michaelangelo
God is not fooled by our exterior--our ugliness, our pride, our weakness, our insecurity. He sees us for who He created us to be.
We are living far below our created value. Sanctification is more about seeing who we are in Christ than it is about removing the parts of us that are bad.
"In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it"
God desires to liberate His people, created in His image, designed to live like Him. He is not hindered by the stone that surrounds us.
Jesus came to bring liberty to the captives. He didn't come proclaiming that He would show us the way to eternal life- as if He came to impart instructions and directions. Do you know that God doesnt want a bunch of people who attempt to follow instructions to build their best selves? You cannot create an angel from a stone. and you cannot recreate Christ from a sinful man.
God, as the ultimate artist, sent His son to liberate His image-bearers from the burdens and yokes that we have put upon ourselves. Mankind has lost sight of who we were originally created to be and identified ourselves by our outer appearances, our actions, and our feelings.
Nobody would pay a great price for a block of stone. Our worth and value does not come from how much we can decorate our blocks of stone and disguise it as something more valuable. Our worth and value comes from our Creator who paid the ultimate price for us--even though we were formless stone (Romans 5:8)--so that He could set us free to be who we were supposed to be. "For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works" (Ephesians 2:10)
God is not fooled by our exterior--our ugliness, our pride, our weakness, our insecurity. He sees us for who He created us to be.
We are living far below our created value. Sanctification is more about seeing who we are in Christ than it is about removing the parts of us that are bad.
"In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it"
God desires to liberate His people, created in His image, designed to live like Him. He is not hindered by the stone that surrounds us.
Jesus came to bring liberty to the captives. He didn't come proclaiming that He would show us the way to eternal life- as if He came to impart instructions and directions. Do you know that God doesnt want a bunch of people who attempt to follow instructions to build their best selves? You cannot create an angel from a stone. and you cannot recreate Christ from a sinful man.
God, as the ultimate artist, sent His son to liberate His image-bearers from the burdens and yokes that we have put upon ourselves. Mankind has lost sight of who we were originally created to be and identified ourselves by our outer appearances, our actions, and our feelings.
Nobody would pay a great price for a block of stone. Our worth and value does not come from how much we can decorate our blocks of stone and disguise it as something more valuable. Our worth and value comes from our Creator who paid the ultimate price for us--even though we were formless stone (Romans 5:8)--so that He could set us free to be who we were supposed to be. "For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works" (Ephesians 2:10)
