Good Morning All!!
Proverbs 8:30; “then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,”
Yesterday, I was a carpenter, sort
of. My wife and I use raised garden
boxes to grow our garden. We grow
tomatoes and peppers and a few cucumbers.
We decided to add another box this year.
Now, I am not the greatest carpenter in the world. You would think I would be considering my
grandfather, my father and my son are carpenters. Yet from an early age, my job was to hold the
tape measure; not use it, just hold it.
I understand the theory but for some reason my hands don’t do the
practice. Yet we commenced to building.
Now my wife is a wonderful person but her
carpentry skills are less than mine; add in the fact that we bought our lumber
from one of the big box home centers and most of our boards looked like Bob
Hope’s nose; the task was going to be daunting.
Fortunately we finished the task with all fingers and toes intact and we
were still speaking to each other. I am
not much of a carpenter but most people don’t expect me to be. Our verse speaks of Jesus as being a master
workman as well.
We don’t always think of Jesus as a workman
or as a craftsman and yet he is. Jesus
is the creative power of God during the creation. God created with his word. “God said...” and creation occurred. The Apostle John calls Jesus “The Word” and
tells us that the “Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” And here we see Jesus at work again, this
time doing the redemptive work of paying for our sins so that we may once again
be one of God’s children. The task of
creation was completed perfectly as God found it to be “very good.” The task of redemption is just as great
because it is the beginning of the restoration of creation to its renewed state
of holiness.
It is in this work that God finds great
delight. It is in the work of Jesus,
both creative and redemptive that God finds “very good.” It is this work that God the Father takes his
delight in because it gives him joy that once again we are his children that we
are no longer enemies with God. We can
again call upon His Name with joy and peace.
We can live with the certainty of eternal life with Him and we can live knowing
that God takes delight in this.
We can find comfort in this because we have
a God that takes delight in us. We are
not his playthings or toys but rather we are his beloved children. We are those whom he seeks to bless with his
great gifts and with his love and mercy poured out upon us. We know we can always turn to him at any time
because of his great love for us. God
delights in your salvation; shouldn’t you?
Gracious
Father, you find delight in me even though I am not worthy but because of Jesus
you declare me holy. Lead me to live in the delight of your will and move me by
your Spirit to bring about your grace and peace to this broken world. In the precious Name of Jesus we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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