Everyone Loves Indian Corn; A Lesson in Repurposed Hearts and Lives



    Welcome to Repurposed with a Purpose. This blog helps you refine your purpose in life by teaching you how to transform unwanted items into beautiful folk art. Taking inspiration from Romans 8:29, we believe that all people have an end goal in life. God created us to be molded and shaped into the image of God, the Son. 
    "For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters" Romans 8:29, NLV. God made us humans to be transformed into Jesus's image. After all, Jesus is the Father's only Son. He is God, the Son. He possesses the nature of the Father and the Holy Spirit. God is three persons with one character.  
    We are all on a journey to become or not become like Jesus Christ. If we accept Jesus's death on the cross for our sins and confess that he died and rose from the grave for us, we are on our way to becoming more like him. If we resist or refuse to believe in him, we set ourselves up for destruction in this life and the next. We take his purpose for our lives and exchange it for the lie that we are masters of our own fate. This lie leads to despair rather than fulfillment and purposeful living.
    Creating folk art helps us recover our purpose. When we repurpose something old and broken into something beautiful and new, it reminds us of the repurposing work Jesus does in our hearts. He takes our sins and brokenness and exchanges them for beauty, meaning, and purpose.
    Watch the video that comes along with this post. Make beautiful pieces from this or last year's leftover Indian Corn. Most of all, let Jesus create art from the discarded colonels of your life. Perhaps along this journey, you will discover or rediscover that Jesus takes our brokenness and exchanges it for his glory. 


Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Jane Shoemaker

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