2. God honors those who patiently cooperate with His sandpapering process.

3. Proverbs 15:33
“The fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.”

4. 1 Peter 5:6
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”

5. “The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.”
The Butterfly Circus

6. Isaiah 45:9-10
“Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’

7. Proverbs 22:29
“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.”

8. God honors those who patiently cooperate with His sandpapering process.
God sandpapers us to exact specs for maximum effectiveness.

9. Ephesians 2:10
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

10. John 17:4
“I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.”

11. Acts 13:36
“For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.”

12. Acts 20:24
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.”

13. Crucifixion precedes Resurrection

14. God honors those who patiently cooperate with His sandpapering process.
God sandpapers us to exact specs for maximum effectiveness.
The sanded down ones are crafted to bring blessing to many.

15. “All who drink deeply of the wells of God’s grace will sooner or later overcome the barriers of life, to bring forth fruit that will bless others.”
Leslie Flynn

16. TheCallingJourney.com
Mapping stages of a leader’s life call

17. 1 Peter 1:6-7
“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

18. “Delay never thwarts God’s purposes; it only polishes His instrument.”
V. Raymond Edman