statue?

i was talking with a good friend of mine tonight and i mentioned that sanctification was on my mind.

and i was thinking about an analogy of it. and i haven't really thought through the idea too harshly, but i feel that it sums up the idea that i want to put forward.

i imagine God being a sculptor who takes us and to make us into something amazing.

we're this big hunk of rock. ridiculously jagged and unrefined...& somehow, God is going to unearth something magnificent.

so he goes to work, chipping away.
bit by bit.
imperfection upon imperfection.

and our only direction is to be still.

but of course, we want to move, we want to have it happen all at once, we want it now.

but you can't do work on a statue if it's moving around...

&that's not how God works. and so he stops. he lets us complain and whine~ move around. and once we obey and become still again~ he continues.

he doesn't do our time. he does his time.

he doesn't do mistakes. he does perfection.

he does what we can't. he transforms us.

God does the impossible with man, through Christ.