God's museum

If you have ever been to a museum you will find it is full of the world's best works, pottery, sculpture, paintings.  

Only the best for a museum will do. We, as visitors to these solemn places, admire with amazement the works of art created by hands much more gifted than ours.  

How did they do that?  What amazing skill!  That must be worth a fortune! And we come away in awe at the artistic skill of men and women through the ages.

God has a museum too.  But his art work is much different.  We would never pay to see what he is most proud of.  In fact, like the precious collection of a little child...with valued items to him that only make us smile, God's valued treasures amaze us....not because of their great quality or beauty, but because of their utter worthlessness.

Here's God museum collection- 

"God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.  As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”

This is the artistic work God values.  Not awe inspiring, is it?  

And yet, to our surprise, as we walk through God's museum it is filled with flawed works of art, cracked pots, torn paintings, ruined statues, used by the great master for his glory. 

His museum is full of flawed and worthless pieces that he can be glorified through. 

If you know him you are one of his prized possessions, not because you are so good or beautiful, but because he can look good through you.  You see, you don't have to be good enough to be in God's museum...he's not looking for that kind of art...you just have to be cracked, broken, worthless to the world, but available to him.  Then you will find yourself in his museum of precious works of art.  A vessel, cracked broken and worthless to everyone else, but highly prized by God.