Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Sunday, 1 October 2017 "We Are God's Handiwork" by Ian Robinson - Psalm 33:1-15

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Sunday, 1 October 2017 "We Are God's Handiwork" by Ian Robinson - Psalm 33:1-15
Psalm 33:1 Rejoice in Adonai, you righteous!
Praise is well-suited to the upright.
2 Give thanks to Adonai with the lyre,
sing praises to him with a ten-stringed harp.
3 Sing to him a new song,
make music at your best among shouts of joy.
4 For the word of Adonai is true,
and all his work is trustworthy.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the grace of Adonai.
6 By the word of Adonai the heavens were made,
and their whole host by a breath from his mouth.
7 He collects the sea waters together in a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear Adonai!
Let all living in the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spoke, and there it was;
he commanded, and there it stood.
10 Adonai brings to nothing the plans of nations,
he foils the plans of the peoples.
11 But the counsel of Adonai stands forever,
his heart’s plans are for all generations.
12 How blessed is the nation whose God is Adonai,
the people he chose as his heritage!
13 Adonai looks out from heaven;
he sees every human being;
14 from the place where he lives
he watches everyone living on earth,
15 he who fashioned the hearts of them all
and understands all they do.
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Many years ago, we visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where we saw Rembrandt's magnificent, oversized painting called "The Night Watch." five years previous, a man had slashed the canvas with a breadknife, and we saw many art restoration experts working busily to repair it. Yet no matter how much work they did to restore it, this work of art will always be attributed to Rembrandt. It was his handiwork.
God formed us in His image and we will always be His handwork. In Psalm 33, we are reminded that not only did God create us but that He also watches over us and "considers" everything we do. We should think carefully about that. He sees everything we do, hears everything we say, knows every thought even before it forms in our minds. So how should we live? Our lives should reflect the glory of God's handiwork. Paul says, "be very careful then, how you live-not unwise but as wise" (Ephesians 5:13). This is our calling and God's design for His people-to live like Jesus.
Hymn for Today:

"I Want to be Like Jesus" by Thomas O. Chisholm, copyright 1945, Renewed 1972 by Lillenas Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
1. I have one deep supreme desire:
that I may be like Jesus.
To this I fervently aspire,
that I may be like Jesus.
I want my heart His throne to be,
so that a watchful world may see
His likeness shining forth in me.
I want to be like Jesus.
2. He spent His life in doing good;
I want to be like Jesus.
Always in humble service stood;
I want to be like Jesus.
He sympathised with hearts distressed;
He spoke the words that cheered and blessed;
He welcomed sinners to his breast.
I want to be like Jesus.
3. A holy blameless life He led;
I want to be like Jesus.
The Father's will, His drink and bread;
I want to be like Jesus.
And when at last he came to die,
"Father, forgive them," He could cry
for those who taunt and crucify.
I want to be like Jesus.
4. O perfect life of Christ, my Lord!
I want to be like Jesus.
My recompense and my reward:
that I may be like Jesus.
His Spirit fill my hung'ring soul,
His power all my life control;
My deepest pray'r, my highest goal:

that I may be like Jesus.
Thought for Today:
A person who claims to be continuing in union with him ought to conduct his life the way he did.(1 John 2:6}
Please pray:
for the development of Christian leaders in Haiti.
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