For We Are God's Masterpiece
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s masterpiece”. This is quite a statement from our God, especially this past weekend as I looked out over the blue mirror that is Crater Lake. It was Lana and I’s first visit to the imploded volcano and we had no idea what to expect. When we arrived at the park on Sunday evening, you couldn’t even tell there was even a mountain there because of the dense fog. We were driving right next to a cliff that leads down to the bluest, clearest and purest lake in the whole world and we couldn’t even see it!
The next morning, as we arose from our slumber in our woodland campsite, the skies had cleared and the temperature was up to a warm 50 degrees. As we made our way back up the mountain to the rim we stopped at the Visitors Center and saw the pictures and heard the other tourists talking about the lake’s blueness. We even caught the video at the visitor center and again most of the people talking about Crater Lake being so blue!
After hearing so much about this blueness, we finally made our way up to the rim and oh my! It’s so BLUE! It really is amazing how blue and clear Crater Lake is. The amazing thing is that this park really is mostly just a road around the rim of Crater Lake with places to pull off the road to look at the scenery. There are other activities to do at Crater Lake National Park, but for the most part, it’s all about looking at the lake. To someone who hasn’t been there this probably doesn’t sound like it could be all that great. But every time we pulled off to a new viewing point it was still an amazing sight to see. The blueness, the great crater, the surrounding mountains and forest was simply breathtaking. But what is even more amazing is that this beautiful creation made by God isn’t his masterpiece we are!
To think that God created all this beauty and still calls us His masterpiece! I’m awestruck at the love of our Lord. How can something so beautiful, so great, so big not be His masterpiece? God calls me his Masterpiece – a dirty, sinful human that truly doesn’t deserve any of it let alone His grace and love. God loves us so much He not only created this unique and beautiful lake for us to enjoy but through his Son Jesus we are made even more beautiful and pure because of the sacrifices He made out of love for us!
How often do we allow the fog of life to obscure this salvation? How often do we drive along in life and not even realize that God has done something so amazing and it is right next to us? Yet He stands by us all the same and drives along with us until the fog clears and we can truly see what He has done for us and how pure His love is for us. We surely do have a good, good Father.