He Changed Me

My childhood was pretty difficult, but you wouldn’t have known it because I never said a word about it. I always lived in a nice place, on a nice street, went to church and had a great home life. Neighbors and people at church always commented about how sweet I was. “You have the nicest daughter!” they would say. I dreaded when the heliocopter would come on Rescue 911 because that meant that I had to go to bed...a place where I hated to go. My thoughts and nightmares would torment me and keep me awake for hours.

 

Looking back on my childhood, I remember my wonderful family but also the hurtful things that happened to me and that I did to myself. I never mentioned any problems, I didn't ever want to cause a burden to my parents. By God's amazing grace, I finished high school but never really did much with college because I was worried about not being smart enough to finish. I had always dreamed of doing something important, but after years of locking myself in a cage, the grown-up me lacked confidence in my potential to do anything significant. Then I watched this video on Facebook that my friend posted. The guy said God uniquely designed every person to be an original masterpiece. “God doesn’t make junk!” he shouts “Every person in this room is a masterpiece!” I sat looking at my computer screen trying to picture myself as a masterpiece.....I wasn't perfect and how can a flawed person be a masterpiece? Then I remembered them saying that every human was made in the image of God. While I couldn’t exactly identify why, I was comforted by the idea that He had made me in His image. That day, I realized the truth: I am here for a purpose and what I went through is testiment to the fact that I am created and loved by God.

God desires for each Christian to be a fully-realized masterpiece. However, you must allow God to remove the things that ding and tarnish your faith. When we give Him permission, God will chisel away our rough edges. He does it through allowing us to experience different situations that grow our faith and increase our dependence on Him as well as decreasing our independence. As those rough edges are chiseled away, the light of Christ will shine through our lives in ever-increasing measure for everyone to see.

And if you haven't ever seen that video by the Skit Guys, called God's Original Masterpiece......go look it up on youtube!