MORNING MANNA 5-22-25
God’s Finished Product
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.” – Psalm 138:8
I love the following story told by Vance Havner. It serves to illustrate how our Father is working even when we aren’t aware of it.
I have heard of a little boy whose sailor father was coming home to see him. The youngster worked the afternoon long trying to carve a ship model from a block of wood. He fell asleep, with very little success achieved for all his whittling. That night his father came, removed the block of wood and put in its place a real wooden ship exquisitely carved and rigged or perfection.
Your life and mine often bears poor resemblance to the Perfect Model. At our best we are like the carving of the little boy. But one day we shall awake in His likeness and see Him as He is. And we shall find that we bear the image of the heavenly. He who has begun a good work in us in regeneration will perform it in sanctification until the day of Jesus Christ in glorification. We were predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s Son, and God will make of us a finished product and a perfect creation.
It will be great to awaken in the morning and find that we are just like Jesus! Cheer up, my brother. He will perfect that which concerneth you!
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble,Tx
