Fashioned for a Savior
All year the beautiful theme of ‘Fashioned’ has fueled our blogs each week to inspire and encourage you. With just two weeks to go in 2023, and hovering around all things Christmas, my heart kept settling on the phrase, “fashioned for a Savior.”
When given the opportunity to share the Word, it is my aim to give an invitation to Jesus. It is of my understanding and belief, that when each of God’s precious people were crafted fearfully and wonderfully made in their mother’s wombs, there was yet an intentional missing piece to the puzzle. Though we each are a beautiful masterpiece, intrinsically, there is a hole, an unmet need, an unfulfilled desire that can only be fulfilled by the grace, love and salvation of Christ.
We were fashioned for a Savior.
If you have the joy and assurance of being a believer, you understand this amazing concept! Perhaps you lived your life never knowing you needed a Savior until one day the good news was shared with you. Or maybe you were one who has served Him all your days, accepting Christ into your life from the time as a small child. Or you took time sowing some oats and came to the end of yourself where you met your Savior face to face, never understanding how you ever lived a day without Him.
You were fashioned for a Savior.
Consider all the topics covered this year in PennDel Women blog format and all we are fashioned for in His mighty hand! Being fashioned in Christ is being well-positioned and favored of Him.
Like a perfectly crafted Christmas outfit with all the right accessories, or a Christmas cookie that is too pretty to eat, remember you are “a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.” Is 62:3. You are buttoned up, bedazzled, stitched, and hemmed into His perfect plan. You were created by God, exquisitely, hand-crafted, a one-of-a kind design. But because you were fashioned for a Savior, you were made to reflect His image and glory as His masterpiece. Ps 119:73 (ERV) “With your hands you made me and helped me become what I am. Now help me learn and understand your commands.” What a beautiful verse acknowledging the craftsmanship of Christ! He has fashioned us and then helps us to accomplish His work!
“But now, O Lord, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You our potter; and all of us are the work of Your hand.” Isaiah 64:8. His gentle hands are shaping and molding us into all that He hopes and dreams for us. Yield yourself to His will and the best days are ahead! Before you try to fill your perfectly made vessel with anything of the world to satisfy, remember that all you’ll ever need is found in Him. The little One they wrapped gently and then laid in a manger. The One Who hung mangled on a cross, dying a sinner’s death as a perfect sacrifice. The One, who was once again wrapped gently in a tomb, but Who burst forth in new life and hosts new life with abundance for us!
You were fashioned for a Savior.
Nothing will fulfill your spiritual needs, desires or wants but Jesus. He left His heavenly home, put on flesh, and dwelt among us. He was acquainted with our sorrows and came to die to further fashion your life after His own. If you are a believer, tether your heart to His and continually seek how you can serve Him greater each day. We all have people in our lives, both family and friends, who are in desperate need of Jesus.
They too, are fashioned for a Savior.
Commit to pray for someone this holiday week who does not know the fullness of their fashion. Go a step further and invite them to your church service or your dinner table. It would break the Lord’s heart if they were ‘fashionably late’ to His Kingdom. He came to save all.
And if you are reading this and feel a tug upon your heart, that is the love of Jesus beckoning to you. He is knocking on the door of your heart. “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you. And you will eat with me.” (Rev 3:20, ERV). What a wonderful point of imagery at Christmas to invite the Lord into your life and dine with Him! It will be the best Christmas dinner ever! Simply reflect on the lifestyle you are living. Do you feel incomplete? Imagine how that can all change with one utterance in prayer to Jesus, “I believe in You.” “Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth, one confesses and is saved.” (Rom 10:9-10, ESV).
He was fashioned to be our Savior.
-Thank you, Jesus.
