Billy Taylor's Junkyard Masterpieces
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★THERE is a guy named Billy Taylor. He is a junkyard specialist. Billy Taylor goes to junkyards to find stuff that other folk have thrown away, discarded, and considered no good or worthless. Billy Taylor brings it back to his garage and turns the junk into contemporary art pieces, which he then sells for upwards of five thousand dollars a piece.
He goes and finds junk that is worthless in everybody else’s eyes and then turns it into a masterpiece. When Billy Taylor looks at the junk, he sees more than meets the eye.
He sees a masterpiece in the making. He takes things that are worthless and makes them into something beautiful. Well, you may have been worthless before you met Jesus, but once you meet Him, even if you were in the junkyard, He’s able to go into that yard, save you, and turn you into a valuable masterpiece.
Because of His grace, you are now a divine design.
The point
Billy Taylor retrieves discarded junk from junkyards and transforms it into masterpieces worth thousands. Similarly, Jesus takes worthless people and by grace transforms them into valuable divine designs.