'He takes the poorest materials
He takes the poorest materials
It would not be hard to take an angel and train him into a glorious messenger; but to take such a man as Peter, or as Paul, or as John Newton, or as John Bunyan, and make out of him a holy saint or a mighty apostle — that is the manifestation of divine power.
Yet that is what Christ did, and has been doing ever since. He takes the poorest materials — despised, worthless, and outcast men — and when He has finished His gracious work, we behold a saint whiter than snow!
The sculptor beheld an angel in the rough, blackened stone which was rejected and thrown away. And when men saw the stone again, behold! there was the angel cut from the block.
Just so, Christ can take us, rough and unpolished as we are, and in His hands our lives shall grow into purity and loveliness, until He presents them at last before the throne, faultless and perfect!