The Masterpiece of God

From Michelangelo's Masterpiece:
"The Creation of Adam"

Most of us understand that the God we serve is the Creator. The Bible clearly shows in the first two chapters of Genesis that God created the heavens and the earth. But one of the things that we often lose sight of is that God's Creative Power is not restricted to the Beginning. The God we worship is still serving in His role as Creator. I've heard people make the statement, God's not making any new land. Says who? Don't restrict the creativity of God to the first chapter of the Bible. He's still making things out of nothing. That's what He does!

But let us not forget the masterpiece of God. The masterpiece of all of God's creation are humans (male and female). The reason why humans are the masterpiece of God's creation is because we are the only aspect of His creation that were made in His Image and after His Likeness (Genesis 1). So as human beings, we represent the Masterpiece of God. Now one would think that the masterpiece of humanity has been ruined because of the entrance of sin into the human race. Au contraire, Saints. As a matter of fact, quite the opposite. Believe it or not, the fall of the human race gave God a chance to show how great of a Creator He really is. It's one thing to make something out of nothing. It's another thing to take something that's marred and broken, "without form and void" (Genesis 1), and then turn "that" into a masterpiece. That's what Salvation is all about.

When God sent His only begotten Son to save the world from sin, He also used Him to demonstrate what His Masterpiece of Creation is supposed to look like. We've often miss in Christianity that every born-again believer is supposed to manifest the Witness of Jesus Christ (Romans 8). Jesus is not so much the masterpiece, as much as He is the Model of the Masterpiece. He didn't have to be made, He always was. With that understanding, our whole ambition for living should be to imitate and emulate the Model of the Masterpiece that Jesus demonstrated while on earth.

The Bible says that "we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2). God is still creating in us. He's actually creating the Model of the Masterpiece within us, so that we can be witnesses and manifestations of the Model of the Masterpiece, which of course is Christ Jesus. But here's the mystery saints, the manifestation of the masterpiece isn't restricted to the earthly and temporal realm. One of the things that undermines the witness of the church is that we think too much in finite terms and earthly dimensions. 

Remember, the masterpiece of God (His human creation) wasn't made for time, we were made for Eternity. And also remember, our source is not Earth, our Source is Heaven. That's why Jesus repeatedly said, "my Kingdom is not of this world" (John 18). Saints, it's time that we honor the Father, submit to the craftsmanship of the Holy Spirit, and allow Christ to be formed in us as the Masterpiece of God.