On the Anvil

I got a new book; "On the Anvil" by Max Lucado Max Lucado likens the God's kingdom and ministry on earth as a huge workshop. And we are all God's tools.

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
-Eph 2:10

The Blacksmith's shop In the shop of a blacksmith, there are three types of tools. There are tools on the junk pile: Outdated, broken, dull, rusty. They sit in the cobwebbed corner, useless to their master, oblivious to their calling. There are tools on the anvil: melted down, molten hot, changeable. They lie on the anvil, being shaped by their master, accepting their calling. There are tools of usefulness: sharpened, primed, defined, mobile. They lie ready in the blacksmith's tool chest, available to their master, fulfilling their calling. Some people lie useless: lives broken, talents wasted, fire quenched, dreams dashed. They are tossed in with the scrap iron, in desperate need of repair, with no notion of purpose. Others lie on the anvil: hearts open, hungry to change, wounds healing, vision clearing. They welcome the painful pounding of the blacksmith's hammer, longing to be rebuilt, begging to be called. Others lie in their Master's hands: well tuned, uncompromising, polished, productive. They respond to their Master's forearm, demanding nothing, surrendering all. Where are we now?