I am more than a watch.

A man named William Paley from the 19^th century offered an argument for God as the creator. It’s called the Watchmaker Argument and you might have heard it before. Basically he says, suppose that I’m walking and I stub my toe against a rock. Suppose that the person walking with me asks, How’d that rock get there?” I might answer that for all I know it had been there forever. That wouldn’t seem too crazy right? Now, suppose both of us were walking and I found a watch on the ground, one of those old wind up watches, not the digital kind. Suppose that same person asked me how that watch got to be there. Could I answer the same? I suppose it’s been there forever? Wouldn’t that seem ridiculous? Here’s why that seems ridiculous: Upon further examination of the watch, you see what you could not see in the rock, you see that it has many little tiny parts inside that are framed and put together for a purpose. So it’s rather improbable to think that this watch has been here forever; the watch must have had a maker. There must have existed, at some time and at some place or another, a “maker” so to speak who formed this contraption for a purpose which we can see as we look at the watch. It had a maker.

For we are God’s handiwork [masterpiece], created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10, NIV)

We sometimes look in a mirror , and we don’t see handiwork or a masterpiece. We see our flaws, our failures, and we don’t see anything but a big mistake. You are not a mistake. You are not worthless. If your dad told you that, he’s a liar. If your mom told you that, she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. If your employer tells you that, quit. If your girlfriend or boyfriend, husband or wife tells you that you are worthless, sit them down, grab your Bible and turn to Psalm 139 and read the words of King David, “[God] created my inmost being; he knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise [God] because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; [his] works are wonderful, I know that full well” (vs. 13,14).

You may not feel like a masterpiece now, but remember this, when God looks at your life He doesn’t just see what you are; He also sees what you can be.” You are God’s masterpiece.