The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in John 2:10,
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
This was the comment the master of the banquet made to the bridegroom after Jesus had turned water to wine at a wedding banquet. The wine Jesus created from water was "the best"!
This is what the Lord does. His hand turns out the best. I am reminded of what Jesus Christ does in our lives when we embrace him in faith. He takes plain old sinners like you and me and creates things of beauty of us. He transforms us and he perfects us into the best.
"For he [God] chose us in him [Jesus Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Ephesians 1:4. "Holy and blameless" is not something anyone would have accused me of, but he perfects us!
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Galatians 5:22-23. Anyone who is marked by these qualities certainly is a thing of beauty! He perfects us and makes a thing of beauty of us!
"You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." 1 Peter 2;9-10. Look at the beautiful thing the Lord makes of us as a people! He makes us the best.
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
This was the comment the master of the banquet made to the bridegroom after Jesus had turned water to wine at a wedding banquet. The wine Jesus created from water was "the best"!
This is what the Lord does. His hand turns out the best. I am reminded of what Jesus Christ does in our lives when we embrace him in faith. He takes plain old sinners like you and me and creates things of beauty of us. He transforms us and he perfects us into the best.
"For he [God] chose us in him [Jesus Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Ephesians 1:4. "Holy and blameless" is not something anyone would have accused me of, but he perfects us!
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Galatians 5:22-23. Anyone who is marked by these qualities certainly is a thing of beauty! He perfects us and makes a thing of beauty of us!
"You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." 1 Peter 2;9-10. Look at the beautiful thing the Lord makes of us as a people! He makes us the best.
The Lord makes only the best.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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