Our Tuesday/Thursday summer hobby series will conclude at the end of August. There are a few open slots left, so feel free to send in your favorite hobby if you would like to see it featured.
Modeling involves several components:
1. Studying the “real thing” to understand minute details,
2. Making scaled down measurement applications so that the model will accurately reflect the original,
3. Patience in construction of intricate parts – including internal components that will not be visible upon completion of the project, and
4. Enjoyment and satisfaction in the finished product’s accurate representation of the original.
Each of these components of modeling as a hobby is also true in the lives of Christians. In fact, the word Christian literally means “little Christ.” At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit comes to indwell all believers, beginning the transformational process of making them like Christ. He does not stop until a Christian enters heaven, at which time the model is beautifully finished (Ph. 1:6). Jesus said, “…everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.” (Lk. 6:40)
1. Pray for yourself and other Christians in your church to yield to the Spirit as He works today toward the goal of making all of us more like Christ.
2. Pray for unsaved individuals in your town to meet Christians who accurately reflect the Savior, and for the Lord to use that to draw them to salvation.
3. The airplane model above is being made from layers of cereal box cardboard glued together, paper, thread, bits of metal from a soda can, etc. Hours and hours of work have occurred to draw the plans and get the model to the stage it is at in the picture. A hobbyist doesn’t mind the painstaking labor because he enjoys what he does. Praise God for His loving patience – which far surpasses any modeling hobby project – in all of our lives!
Matthew 21:22
