Masterpiece

I've had my worship music on repeat all day today, and I'm glad I have because some lines are really standing out to me...one in particular:

"Your love for us a masterpiece..."

That line has so much in it, and only now do I realize it! God is the Creator of the universe, he created the stars and the planets and the oceans and every living breathing thing, and yet he loves ME! He loves me whether I talk back to my mom or yell at my brother or fail my math test. In the grand scheme of things I am a pin prick on a pin prick, but he takes as much time loving on me and forgiving me, as he did in creating the heavens! That's amazing; sometimes I don't think I'm worth that much attention, but I'm SO WRONG!

"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart..." Jeremiah 1:5

Did you catch that? Even before I was a thought in my mom's mind, God knew me. He knew what I would look like, sound like, act like, and he set ME apart. He set YOU apart too; you are God's masterpiece, your life is His work of art, your entire being was specifically formed by God's own hands, and that's pretty cool. The hands that made the earth that you are standing on, made you too. And those same hands will continue to push you along, and they will be there to pick you back up and dust you off when you fall.

One of my favorite songs in the song "Tapestry" by Hillsong United. The entire song talks about how our lives are "a tapestry of grace..." Our lives are meticulously knitted together by God himself, and he is still weaving. He's carefully constructing our lives, and though it will get messy and knotted up...He keeps on weaving--He's weaving his masterpiece, and it's gonna get a little crazy, but He's not one to let a job go unfinished. His grace never ends, it never gives up, and just because we mess up doesn't mean that He is done. His plan is amazing, and it's a mystery. We don't know how it will turn out, but if we put our trust in him, and believe that he knew how it was going to turn out even before were formed, I think that everything will be ok.