A Chip Off The Old Block

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [When asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, French sculptor)

Heb 3:1-4
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. NASU

Blocks of marble come in all shapes and sizes. They have different qualities and colors that are within, but it takes a great sculptor to bring those things out. Sometimes the rough beauty of marble can be found in nature, carved out by time, shiny but without shape or purpose, but a delight to see.

God created you and I, but sin has marred what He made. Early on we started telling God what we should be, or what we should look like, and it has got us in trouble ever since. In Jeremiah 18:6, God tells Israel this; “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.”

God chooses us individually and then asks us to surrender to His shaping, and molding and sometimes it hurts. But in the end our beauty will be unmatched and without equal. We are all chips off of “The Block,” we are all made in His image, and one chip at a time He is using this life to chip off what He doesn’t need. And when He is finished we will all look like Jesus…God Bless

Pastor William