A miracle

A miracle of transformation

It would not be hard to take an angel and train him into a glorious messenger; but to take such a sinful man as Simon-Peter, or as Saul, or as John Newton, or as John Bunyan — and make him into a holy saint or a mighty apostle — that is a miracle of transformation .

Yet that is what Christ did, and has been doing ever since. He takes the poorest materials — despised, and worthless, outcast of men ofttimes — and when He has finished His gracious transforming work — we behold a saint whiter than snow.

The sculptor beheld an angel in the rough, blackened stone, which had been rejected and thrown away. He worked his trade on it — 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!

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