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Michelangelo was pushing a block of granite down the street. A curious neighbor sitting lazily on the porch of his house called him and inquired why he labored so over an old piece of stone. Michelangelo is reported to have answered, "Because there is an angel in that rock that wants to come out."

We may compare God's fashioning of our spiritual gifts to sculpturing. The Spirit, may choose to release our "angels" as it were, by taking the raw material we possess (our God-given potential), and transfiguring it to achieve His own pleasure and design.

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