Whether I like it or not (and I like it!), I am in “show business.” The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth” (Job 1:8). Disciples are for display, saints are for spectacle. God the Master Artist does not ply His talents to a raw sinner for nothing; He wants His chief enemy, Satan, to observe and understand what happens to a man when he becomes pliable in God’s hands—the very opposite of what Satan was when he sinned.
But God must display me; I cannot display myself. The chief end of His masterpiece in me is not only for the eternal ages (Ephesians 2:7–10), but for now in the midst of this “crooked and perverse generation” (Philippians 2:15). The bumper sticker “Please be patient, God isn’t finished with me yet” is true, but only partly true. There are elements of a finished product within me, and God wants those elements displayed for others to see.
Remember Daniel? The den of lions was not for Daniel’s benefit, but for the king’s. “Daniel … has your God … been able to deliver you from the lions?” (Daniel 6:20). Looking into the den, the pagan king Darius saw a servant of God displaying the victory over the lions that his faith had made possible. He was astonished and impressed, so& much so that he issued a decree: “the God of Daniel … is the living God … [who] delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders” (6:25–27). Daniel was an actor in a living drama, and the result was applause to Almighty God.
Have you seen my servant ________? Dare I put my name here a one whom the Lord can display? I see now what Paul meant when he called himself God’s exhibition and God’s “spectacle” to the world (1 Corinthians 4:9). What a glory to be a chosen showpiece of God!
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
Daily with the King 