The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. Do not fret when things do not go your way, My loves, for there is a lesson to be learned. When your path is stopped up by circumstance, there is another way laid out for you. When you are under great stress, there is something I Am squeezing out of you that only a diamond remains. These are all the challenges of life in the fallen world that is the earth. But when you let Me have My way with you, then you are refined, shaped, and formed into My image, and with that I can do much in those around you. Do not think that you are flawed, because out of your mess I Am making you into a masterpiece. When a sculptor begins his work on a formless stone it is unclear what will emerge as he diligently works with his hammers and his chisels, but over time, when much stone is removed a beautiful form is revealed and displayed for all gaze upon and is moved to tears at its beauty. Such it is with you, My loves. I Am the great Sculptor, and I spend My time knocking from you the jagged edges of pride and self-preservation and leaving behind a masterpiece fit for a King. You, My loves, are My masterpieces.
Eph 2:1-10 (ESV) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
(2 Cor 3:18; Rom 8:28)
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