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Being
Shaped Into God's Image
We are all somewhere in the Craftman's shop.
The craftman uses various instruments - hammers, forges, anvils - to shape
his tools. Some of this work now lies on a junk pile, broken, outdated,
dull, rusty. There, heaped in a cobwebbed corner, they have become useless,
never fulfilling the purposes for which they were created. Other tools
are still on the anvil, being melted down, molten, changeable. They wait
on the anvil, being shaped by the craftsman's hammer, becoming in the
sometimes painful process what they were meant to be.
These become tools of usefulness; sharpened, primed, defined, mobile.
They lie ready in the craftsman's tool chest, available to their master,
ready to fulfill their calling. As Max Lucado draws these parallels we
realize we are all there, somewhere in the Craftman's shop.
Read by Mike Kellogg.
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