I loved that little song, “He’s Still Working on Me” – can still hear my sons singing it when they were young having learned it in Sunday School and the Christian School they attended. Just think of it! – ‘It only took our Creator a week to make the moon and stars, the sun and earth and Jupiter and Mars. How loving and patient He must be! Cause He’s still working on me!!’
I feel so unworthy before my Master – every day – leaving Him out of my plans – speaking unkindly – trying to run ahead of Him – thinking I know more than He at times – judging unfairly – not knowing the Word like I should – not spending nearly enough time with Him – and I could go on and on and on! Yet, our Lord loves me enough that He is willing every day to keep working on me. Psalm 18:16,17 tells me in the Message that with His agape love, ‘He caught me – reached all the way from sky to sea; He pulled me out of that ocean of hate . . .’ And in the same chapter, verse 19 – in my own loose translation, ‘He tells me that He is kee-razy over me!’ Oh, thank You, Lord Jesus for not giving up on me.
I have to wonder, too, how thankful Shepherd Boy/King David was that God never gave up on him. In our minds, that would have been pretty easy to do. But in all the terribly wrong that David participated, God never gave up on Him – kept working on him! How about Moses? Oh, my! And then, Peter in the New Testament! There are two more verses to that simplistic, but meaningful little song, “He’s Still Working on Me”, but just the first verse suffices for the purpose of this article.
In my times of JOY, He is working on me. In my times of sorrow, in my times of being ‘attacked’, in times of undue stress – I am not going through any of these times in my life just to go through it. God is always/forever using those times to make me what I ought to be. When I think of all the hundreds (thousands) of times I would have given up on me, He never did. Thank You, Lord God, for Who You are – for all that You are – for Your caring for me enough to chastise me – for loving me with ‘agape’ love – and never once having given up on me . . .
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will complete it at the day of Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 1.6
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