The Master Carpenter

 

The Master Carpenter

Christ, the Creator, Organizer and Savior of the world was born into mortality in an obscure town not far from Jerusalem, already a Master Carpenter. Before His birth, He had created worlds without number (Moses 1:38), put the stars in the heavens (Psalms 33:6), and planets in orbit around them. Everything in space and in the earth was created by Him (Col. 1:16). As such, Jesus Christ was already a Master Builder, an Accomplished Architect, and a Perfected Construction Manager long before working at Joseph’s feet in a modest Nazareth woodshop.

He’d planted infinite forests on innumerable worlds prior to cutting and shaping hand-hewn pieces of lumber with rudimentary tools – perhaps fashioning a simple stool or a little box for His mother, Mary. Repeatedly, as a Master Craftsman He took the unorganized, the rough and primitive, and knew perfectly just how to organize it, how to improve it and flawlessly refine it through the meticulous process of creation.

As a child, He employed His mastered skills again as He worked and built things at Joseph’s side. Even more astonishingly, most importantly and significantly, He continues his labors, doing the same thing today – for us!

He can cut through the chaos and confusion of our lives – creating organization, peace and calmness. He can smooth out our rough edges and crude corners – polishing and refining them into beautiful usefulness. He can trim off our imperfect and destructive dispositions – rebuilding, renovating and purifying them.

We love that Jesus was, and still is, the Master Carpenter! (Matt. 23:8).

Merry Christmas to you and yours, the Hughes Family 2020

Wm. Calvin Hughes | December 18, 20220

Why Scripture Study is Essential

 

Top 10 Reasons Why Frequent and Repetitive Scripture Study is Essential

1. We will learn to recognize, understand and hear God’s voice (Luke 15:1, Luke 19:48, Jn. 10:27).
2. We can see God’s hand in the lives’ of others so we can learn to recognize and know of His hand in our own lives (Phil. 2:13, Mk. 5:19, Rom. 8:28).
3. We will grow to appreciate God’s mercy, empathy, compassion and charity in the lives of His children so we can appreciate His same concern in our lives (Ps. 107:8, 15, 21, 31, 1 Chr. 16:34, Zeph. 3:17).
4. We can fully realize that God wins in the end, again and again, so we can find confidence in our challenges and disappointments that our faith combined with God and on our side, we too will overcome and be triumphant when all is said and done (Pro. 19:21, Luke 18:27, 1 Jn. 5:4).
5. We will discover that there is a spiritual side to all things, and the blessings that are ours as we apply that reality in our circumstances (1 Cor. 2:14-15, Rom. 8:6, 1 Cor. 2:13).
6. We will develop an understanding that the commandments are a table of contents to Mortality’s Operational Manual – that they show us God’s rules to protect us and keep us safe, to ultimately experience lasting happiness and prosperity – the commandments provide insights to understanding His works, give directions on where to go for help, instructions on emergency procedures, advice on how to walk in His ways, instructions for access to His organization’s contact directory, and how to develop a relationship with the CEO (Ex. 15:26, Ex. 20:6, Jn. 14:21, 1 Jn. 3:7-13).
7. We can discover how ordinary men and women of history received inspiration, heavenly direction, and revelation from a loving, involved God, so we too can know and enjoy similar inspired, individualized communications from Him (Matt. 5:8, Matt. 11:28).
8. We can understand God’s patterns in dealing with His children, so we can know who to trust, where to receive grace, mercy and refuge, who to seek for comfort and healing, for guidance and relief, for hope and confidence (1 Tim. 1:16, Heb. 8:5).
9. We can learn what God’s kingdom is like, what it will be like to live again with Him in heaven, what we should be doing to qualify for residence there, and how we should live in mortality to practice for our future eternal life in heaven (Matt. 5:20, Matt. 13, Matt. 18:4, 23-26, Matt. 25).
10. We can more fully appreciate Christ’s atonement, it’s applicability to us individually, its infiniteness, boundlessness and limitlessness scope, its ability to right all wrongs, it’s purpose to help us overcome sin, adversity and death, to perfect our imperfections through His perfectness, to reverse the effects of the fall, to help us realize it was the supreme expression of selfless love, and know why we affectionately refer to Him as “Beloved”, “Advocate”, “Redeemer” and “Savior” (Jn. 3:17, Acts 10:43, Eph. 2:7).

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Wm. Calvin Hughes | December 20. 2020 | Lake Elsinore, CA