"God's Handiwork"

 "Consider the work of God: for who can make straight, which he hath made crooked?" (Ecclesiastes 7:13 KJV)

  "God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God's masterpiece. He created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)

 This could be looked at in several different ways; but to the way that best continues the previous verse, speaking towards the great gift that we have been given, this will make better sense with the likeness to 'misfit toys', than it will with anything else. Basically, we are broken people; even in this state of being born again and serving the Lord, we are not complete, and we will not be complete until we have been joined with our Lord in heaven. 

 Does that mean that God has made us broken? God created us in His image, giving us a mind that is set towards doing and thinking and planning, which, because it is such, also has the ability the make choices about what we want to do. This was God's plan all along, that we would not be programed to love Him, but that we would make the choice to love Him, because we know He loves us! 

 So, in a sense, yes! He created us to need to be fixed! Not that God ever needed to be fixed, because He has always been complete; He never changes, nor has the ability to make mistakes. When He created man, He did so to have fellowship with us; but there was one small issue: Man was not Holy like He is; so, He made a way, when there was no other way; knowing in the very beginning what mankind would become. 

 We have been down this road before. We must understand that Adam was not holy, as if God had made him into someone that could not sin. Adam did not have any sin until he sinned! When that might have taken place, we really don't know for sure; except that he acted upon his sin when he ate of the fruit that God told him not to eat. 

 Jesus clearly said, 'If you think about doing something that is wrong, it has already taken place in your heart, and you have sinned!' Why did God place a forbidden tree in the middle of the garden? Was it there to make Adam have the desire to partake of it? One thing is for sure: It was there to give Adam something to not do, because God said not to do it...  

""Do not forget this! Keep it in mind! Remember this, you guilty ones. Remember the things I have done in the past. For I alone am God! I am God, and there is none like me. Only I can tell the future before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish. I will call a swift bird of prey from the east - a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding. I have said what I would do, and I will do it."" (Isaiah 46:8-11 NLT)