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UNFINISHED WORK Read: Romans 7.14–25 Bible in a Year: Job 11–13; Acts 9.1–21 Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7.24–25 At his death, the great artist Michelangelo left many unfinished projects. But four of his sculptures were never meant to be completed. The Bearded Slave, the Atlas Slave, the Awakening Slave, and the Young Slave, though they appear unfinished, are just as Michelangelo intended them to be. The artist wanted to show what it might feel like to be forever enslaved. Rather than sculpting figures in chains, Michelangelo made figures stuck in the very marble out of which they are carved. Bodies emerge from the stone, but not completely. Muscles flex, but the figures are never able to free themselves. Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7.25 My empathy with the slave sculptures is immediate. Their plight is not unlike my struggle with sin. I am unable to free myself: like the sculptures I am stuck, “a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me” (Rom 7:23). No matter how hard I try, I cannot change myself. But thanks be to God, you and I will not remain unfinished works. We won’t be complete until heaven, but in the meantime as we welcome the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, He changes us. God promises to finish the good work He has begun in us (Phil. 1:6). God, thank You that You make us new creatures through the work of Your Jesus Christ, freeing us from our slavery to sin. He is the potter; we are the clay. 
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A timely reminder, much needed by ME at this moment. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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