Masterpieces!!!

March 15, 2000

Yesterday afternoon, during my time of rest, I felt the Lord gently calling
me to take a walk with Him in the spirit. I found myself being led inside a
beautiful gallery and inside I saw many pieces of artwork that was hanging
from wall to wall. It was of various sizes, colors, textures, designs. I
noticed that as we passed by every piece, the Lord would gently touched each
one with His hand and there will be a smile in His face as He did that.
Then, I heard Him spoke these words to me. "Each piece you saw  is My
Masterpiece."

Then He brought me to His workshop. Inside I found different types of tools
and materials that He used for the creation of His masterpiece. Some of the
tools and materials look very pleasant and familiar to the eyes while the
other tools look fearful and awesome. However, when He began using each
tools in His hand and worked with them. They all worked so beautifully
together and I realized that all are useful and essential for the creation
of His Masterpiece.

Then He showed me one work that was still in process. When I looked at that
piece, it already looked perfect to My eyes. But then I saw the Lord shake
His head and began doing some retouching to that piece, and when He has
finished retouching it,  the piece was glowing with the same glory that the
Master has.

THE APPLICATION

I then felt the Lord began explaining to me the meaning of that vision. He
impressed to me that each one of us is like a Masterpiece hanging in His
gallery. Special, unique like no other piece and that He is the one who
crafted each piece.

The different types of  tools and materials that I saw, some pleasant and
others fearsome and awesome represents all the experiences that God has
allowed to touched our lives. Some are pleasant while others have been
painful but when we combined them together, we will realized that all these
have become important ingredient to what we have become in Him.

Many times when others look at us, they see only the things that are outward
and often would think that we
are already good enough, and sometimes   we ourselves would think that way
too. But to the eyes of the Master Artist, He sees beyond the outward
appearances and He will not stopped working in our lives retouching every
part of us until we will glow with His own reflection and His glory will be
seen in us.

WHAT'S THE ARTIST WORKING ON AT THIS TIME

The Lord impressed to me that for this season in the lives of many of His
Masterpieces, He is doing a very particular work. He asked me what I've
noted in my own life and those that are around me like my family and my
friends. And as I was pondering about this, I realized that all of us seem
to undergoing the same type of "retouching" from the hand of our Master
Artist.

We have been experiencing more and more  the Lord working in healing us from
many emotions associated with the past. Whatever we have been suppressing or
ignoring or putting aside have been forced to the surfaces in these past
days. Events would occurred in our midst that will triggered certain
reactions and we have discovered  that as we sift through all these
reactions and emotions,  that many of them were tied in to our past pains,
past fears, past failures, past suppressions.

God has been showing us where all these started and at times bringing us
back to our childhood days and pointing out the specific time and event
where all these has taken place . It was like we were inside a theatre
watching a movie being played in our mind and that movie was about us.  Some
of us even found ourselves acting like children (the main character of that
movie) and  for the first time was able to expressed out to the Lord various
emotions which have lie dormant in our sub-conscious mind for so long. All
the past phantoms hiding deep within us were being forced out to the
surface. This time, we  found the Lord walking us through each particular
event .  We have felt challenges  not to run away  nor to cover them up ,
but He  has encouraged us to freely shared and expressed these feelings to
one another. We have been experiencing   a great washing of His love  being
poured all  over us as we allowed Him to retouched us. The stings and pains
associated to those times was finally removed from us.

I felt that the work that He is doing now  in our midst is not isolated but
this could be taking place in a greater scale and happening to many brethren
as well and this is the reason why the Lord has led me to share this
publicly.

HIS PURPOSE, HIS GOAL

The Lord is about to open His gallery to the public and to show off His
Masterpieces to the nations. He has done much work in the lives of His
various Masterpieces and now He is finishing and retouching the smallest
flaws and imperfections.

Rejoice beloved  Masterpieces of the Most High, for He who began a good work
in us will be faithful to bring it to completion for the glory of His name.

One of God's Masterpiece,

Sis. Ching Co
Cebu City
Philippines