grow - anthony gott

9th May 2011 by MORE

Recently I went to the Salvos Discovery Camp. It was a great week spent chilling with friends but it was also a challenging week for my journey with God. I started drifting from God during the hard weeks at school this term; concentrating more on school work and activities. I was still going to church and still loving God but I just kept leaving him as a last minute thing.

On Wednesday at camp, the speaker spoke about the junk we store in our lives and then showed a video of The Skit Guys, titled God's Chisel. It was about how we are God's masterpieces. He has made us in his image. The guy in the video was looking at himself and not seeing himself as God's masterpiece. He saw all the sin in his life. God came when he prayed and started chiselling away the junk – the stuff that wasn't needed.

I started to think about myself, my journey and how I'm not exactly God's masterpiece. I saw that God still had a lot of work to do in me before I saw myself as his masterpiece. In response I stepped forward and held the chisel in my hand. Then I went back, knelt at God's feet, cried and prayed. I asked God to chisel me into his masterpiece but the process of chiselling hurt – that's why I was crying. God wants us to come to him and be his masterpieces. I apologised again and again. God started chiselling. I don't want people to see Anthony when they look at me. I want people to see Jesus in me and his amazing love.

People then gathered around me including people I didn't know and they all prayed for me. Afterwards I was speechless; at how God provides and how he comes in our time of need. I couldn't help but praise him.