If as George Eliot says, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” then it stands to reason today is a good day to start on the renovation project of our lives. God turns lumps of clay into works of art and utility. His craftsmanship is unparalleled. Need a chant to get you started and keep you going? Try, “Let’s go, Lumpy!”

God our Creator can do amazing things by combining water and dirt. (See Genesis 2:7.) He can use one thing to create another thing similar, yet distinct, and complementary. (See Genesis 2:21, 22.)

God can take men and women at midlife and make them blossom and bloom. He can place fresh fire in smoldering souls. He can blow fresh breezes through stale minds. 

Consider your life. Where could you use renewal? Rate yourself on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the best. How are you doing

* Spiritually
* Physically
* Intellectually
* Relationally
* Emotionally 
* Financially

What could be better with the touch of our Master Creator’s hand? 

What could be improved by his perfect love and enduring faithfulness?

What deficits could he turn into blessings?

This gives us insight into how to pray. Ask God to move your areas of challenge toward strength. Ask him to employ your current and developing strengths to full effect in helping others toward wholeness, beauty, and utility. 

Let God turn your “What might have been” into a firm and delightful “Be.” 

One last thought: What would Moses have been if God had not shown up and set him on mission when he was eighty years old sitting in the wilderness taking care of wandering sheep? 

What would Abram have been if God had not called him to start walking?

What would David have been if his king and his brothers had been competent and courageous?

If you are a boy with big dreams and bigger adversaries, a middle-aged man on a quest, or an old man sitting in the middle of nowhere, a female slave who discovers God is a God Who Sees, a woman turned warrior and prophet, or an old woman who has seen what everyone in her people’s history had longed for, God can take you where you are and fill your life with meaning and purpose. 

What is God saying to you? Follow his steps. Finish well.

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I will become what God wants me to be by his grace and in his strength.

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Our Father, take me as I am and make me what you want me to be. Create in me a pure heart. Give me clean hands. Fill my mind with your thoughts and my mouth with your words. Crowd out every competing source that I may be filled to overflowing with all of your goodness. Amen.