The Lumber of our Lives

A relationship with Christ should be a life of total surrender. A realization that everything we have and everything we are is because of Christ and belongs to Christ.

I think about people that are not very handy and if you were to give them a pile of lumber and a hammer and some nails they would just look at it and have no clue what to do with it. It would stay a useless pile of lumber.

But if you give those same materials to a master craftsman, it wouldn't be long and he would turn that lumber into a beautiful home for someone to dwell in.

It's the same with God. Before we know Christ our lives are nothing but a pile of lumber that we really have no idea what to do with. We struggle through life trying to build something or turn our lives into something meaningful. Only to have things crumble down around us. We need to find a master craftsman that can really make something out of the lumber of our lives.

That's where Christ comes in.

Ephesians 2:8-10 says,
"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."

Did you catch that in verse 10? We are HIS WORKMANSHIP. In other words, He (God), is the Master Craftsman of our lives that wants to take the lumber of our lives and turn it into a beautiful dwelling place for Him to reside.

Does your life seem confusing? Are you having trouble finding purpose or meaning? Is it like your life is a pile of lumber that you don't know what do with or how to make something out of it?

Give the Master Craftsman a chance and see what He will do with you.

He makes beauty from ashes. He makes all things new. He wants to dwell with you and He only wants HIS best for your life!

The key is this. You must be willing to surrender your life to Him and allow Him to be in control. A monstrous decision, I know. But absolutely worth it.