Melody’s name provided inspiration for us as we considered our lives as God’s work of art. Michael Card reminds us that ‘life is a song we must sing with our days’ (‘Poem Of Your Life’) and we looked at 2 Corinthians 3:3 which says ‘you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.’ (2 Cor 3:3) Whether we realise it or not, we are all creative because we are made in the image of a creative God; God wants our lives to reflect His nature and to point others to Himself.
Creativity flourishes in so many different ways (drawing, painting, music, singing, writing, drama, flower-arranging, knitting, sewing, crocheting, to name a few) and we were privileged to hear Stephen’s song for Melody at the end of the service. Every single one of us is a work of art which God is shaping until we are conformed to the image of His Son and become a reflection of His glory. (Rom 8:28-29)
We do not know what life holds for any one of us, but we want our lives to reflect God’s nature and pray that Melody will learn to sign God’s name to her life to fulfil His purposes for her. Ps 36:7-9 reminds us of the fulness of life God has for us and our prayer is that each of us will learn to let our lives sing to the praise of God at all times.