07/09/22 DON'T DEFACE GOD'S MASTERPIECE

07/09/22 DON'T DEFACE GOD'S MASTERPIECE

People who deliberately deface works of art and historical items (paintings, tapestries, sculptures, architecture, documents, music) are vandals. People who deliberately deface God's word and His transforming workmanship (human lives, relationships, local congregations) are blasphemers.

Those who vandalize or deface human works of art are guilty of ruining precious art, historic items, social symbols. Those who resist, reject and stand against God's intricate work of salvation in individuals are guilty of destroying human lives, Divine transformations, eternal treasures.

God does His workmanship in us through His Spirit and His word. This comes through personal study, meditation, worship, obedience, surrender. Our relationship with God should be a transforming relationship as we grow in grace and knowledge and as we worship and serve Him in spirit and in truth and as we live in the beauty of holiness.

God's workmanship, His fearful and wonderful artistry, design and His Divine power that regenerates us and transforms us from darkness to light, from sinner to saint, and conforms us to the image of Jesus, and continues to move us from faith to faith and from light to light and to add to us His grace upon grace, is also accomplished through the Spirit filled and Spirit led preaching and teaching of God's word.

God's workmanship takes place in private and in public. Do not neglect or reject God's means of grace that comes from the proclamation of His word.

Defacing and ruining human works of art use fire, liquids, knives, sledge hammers, bombs, pen and ink. Defacing God's handiwork is a matter of resisting, rejecting, mocking, minimizing by attacking and refuting Divine authority and influence.