Making His Music

Making His Music

Bible:2 Corinthians 3:17-18

We all . . . are being transformed into his image (V.18).

Reading

Arianne spent her childhood sitting on her hands—to hide them. She had been born with fingers missing or fused together. She also had no left leg and was missing toes on her right foot. But one day her choir teacher asked her to conduct—which made her hands quite visible. From that moment she grew in confidence, going on to conduct church and university choirs. “My teacher saw something in me,” she explains. Her inspiring story can make us ask, What does God, our holy teacher, see in us, despite our ‘limits’? More than anything else, He sees Himself. “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (GENESIS 1:27 NLT). As His “image”, when others see us, we should reflect Him. For Arianne, that meant God’s Spirit, not her hands—or her lack of fingers—mattered most. The same is true for all Christians. “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image” (2 CORINTHIANS 3:18). Similar to Arianne, we can live by His Spirit’s leading (V.18), not by what makes sense to us. When we are focused more on God than our limits, we have the chance to display Him better to the people around us.

GOD MADE US AS HIS IMAGE
—TO MAKE HIM KNOWN TO THE WORLD.

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