Masterpiece:    “Something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator’s greatest achievement <Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are often considered to be his masterpieces”                   Miriam Webster

Everyday God paints another masterpiece and every day I am still amazed!

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them Genesis 1:27

After every word of creation God looked at what was completed and saw that it was good…but He wasn’t done yet. He spoke light from darkness but He wasn’t satisfied. He created the oceans and the sky but had more to still do. He created then the dry land and filled it with forests and orchards but like in the infomercial we can almost hear an angel call out  “Wait there’s more!”. Next, God filled the sky with stars and placed the sun and moon exactly where he chose. God began the following day by filling the oceans with fish and the land with animals. When God had finished His creation of the entire universe He still wasn’t done. He had not yet created His masterpiece. Everything that had flowed from the mind of God came into existence by the power of His word. But in His last work God did something differently. This time God breathed Himself into His “greatest achievement” .

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7

Maybe today while we are blindly running along we should pause and look closely at one of God’s masterpieces and consider His motive behind that most familiar verse of all…

    For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3:16