Glory to God!!!

My Ben's first sketch for the Hoot Owl Hollow illustrations

"Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)

       Ephesians 2:10 says we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Writing Christian storybooks for families is one work I believe God called me to do, and illustrating book #3 is a work I believe God called my Ben to do.

        The greatest work ever performed by man on this earth, however, was death on a cross. Though Jesus was God, He chose not to exercise His deity but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men, humbled Himself in obedience to the point of death on a cross (Phil. 2:6-8). 
       The night before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed to the Father, "I glorified You on earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do" (John 17:4). Hours later, He said, "It is finished!", bowed His head, and gave up His spirit (John 19:30). In Jesus' finished work, we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of our trespasses. We were snatched from darkness to the light, and from the dominion of Satan to God.
         "For this reason, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of JESUS, every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:9-11)! 

Now, let's finish the work God has called us to do for His glory!