When you were young, did you ever fold up a piece of white paper and using some scissors carefully snip away at it and then unfold the paper and look with delight at the snowflake you had made? Recently I was reminded of this childhood activity and that paper cutting has a name: Scherenschnitte. This is a German word for “scissor cuts,” and the art of paper cutting. I decided to try my hand at this and made a paper cutting for a Bible journaling entry. The pieces I cut out of my main section were useful on the next page as well.

The Creator, the God of all of the universe, snips and shapes me into the person He wants me to be as well. Each day, study in His word, time spent in prayer, and fellowship with other believers, conforms me to His image. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God,” Romans 12:1-2, NKJV.

I need to be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit as the Lord Jesus Christ shows me how He wants me to live my life before Him. After all, as long as I am on this earth I am a work in progress. What do I need to change? What sin do I need to let go of? In what way does He want me to trust Him more? How can I be a light for Him? “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ,” Philippians 1:6. In the Lord Jesus Christ I have been justified, I am being sanctified, and one day in heaven I will be glorified. In the meantime, as I grow in the knowledge of Him, 2 Peter 3:18, I need to “Walk in the Spirit/[be] led by the Spirit/[and] live in the Spirit,” Galatians 5:16, 18, 25. I am a work of His, in progress until He calls me home.