Anything that you see that is good in me, I can't take credit for. You see the truth is I was dead in my transgressions and my sin, but God... while I was dead with no life left in me, bid me to come.

Come? How can a dead man come?

It is but by God that we come, as we were dead when he called us. He alone gives life and resurrection from the dead. Anything good that you see in me is simply Him at work. The Great Artist at work on the canvas of my life. He is at work in all of us who are being "renewed day by day." (2 Cor. 4:16) Each day, with a new picture.

There's just one more thing to note.

He is painting the same picture.

The canvas isn't the same...

The backdrop isn't the same...

But He's painting the same picture.

It's really beautiful, but to be honest it's really simple.

It only takes him two strokes.