My wife and I embarked on a small project this evening after I got home from work. We have a smaller, third bedroom which we usually keep our computers in and we have moved everything out of it in order to prep the room for refinishing. We've been through this before and we both know the drill.

Tonight things went smoothly as we worked together with very little conversation about what we were doing. In fact as we took up the carpet and padding and pulled up the tack strips and all of the staples and nails, we were talking about other things of interest and looking ahead to where we would be looking for supplies to paint the room and refinish the beautiful hardwood flooring we had just uncovered. Judging from past experience, the room will undergo a starkly contrasting change from its present state to something much more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

A similar transformation takes place when people give their hearts into God's care through His son, Jesus Christ. He in His masterful wisdom knows so completely people's hearts that when they turn to Him in repentance He begins to change them from the inside out. He takes what is there and starts to fashion a person into someone whom He has set apart for Himself and for whom He has prepared jobs to do, in order to help others to turn to God as well.

What starkly contrasting change could be more pleasing to the eye, than to see a heart in Heaven that has been transformed by the grace of the Lord?

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10