Key Thoughts and Scriptures:
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin, 18th century English writer and polymath
- No one is more loving or more skilled than our great God.
Ephesians 2:10 NLT For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
- God has good things for you and me to do this very year.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 NLT For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
- No matter what the circumstances are around us, when we look to the Lord wholeheartedly and pray to Him, His good plans are worked out for us.
- We are each individually a masterpiece, but the body of Christ together is God’s amazing masterpiece that has inner workings that will only be understood in eternity.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 NLT The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ…
- So if Jesus is Lord of your life and you are part of God’s wonderful masterpiece, the body of Christ, you might think your part is small or unimportant, but it’s not.
God’s Masterpiece Revealed Through the Women in Moses’ Life
- The midwives stood against evil, which God had called them to do.
- And in doing so, they were used by God to protect Moses when he was most vulnerable so he could fulfill the destiny God had for him.
Exodus 4:24-26 NLT On the way to Egypt, at a place where Moses and his family had stopped for the night, the Lord confronted him and was about to kill him…
- Zipporah interceded for Moses and took action to put things right.
- Miriam became a leader in the community, helping guide the women. (Exodus 15, 20, and 21)
Micah 6:4 NLT For I brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.
- The women had no idea God was planning to use Moses in that way, but they each did the good work God had called them to do and God brought His masterful plan into being.
- Jochebed was a caring, nurturing, and protective mother.
- Shipra and Pua stood against evil, saving not only Moses’ life, but undoubtedly other young Israelite boys as well.
- Even Pharaoh’s daughter had a compassionate heart, which allowed her to be used to protect Moses and see that he received the education he would eventually need to lead the people out of slavery and form them into a nation.
- Zipporah was a caring wife and mother who followed Moses in faith to Egypt and interceded for his life and his destiny.
- And Miriam obeyed her mother and courageously approached a powerful adversary.
- Later, Miriam spoke prophetic words and counsel that supported Moses as he led the children of Israel through the desert to the promised land.
- They all played an important part, just like parts of a body working together.
Each of us has a role in the masterpiece God is creating in our day.
- Seek the Lord and continue to do the small daily good works He’s called you to do.
- God has a place for you in His masterpiece. Just say yes to His plan.
Colossians 1:9-12 NIV …We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
James 1:27 NIV Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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