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Have you always been a lover of great art? There's a little boy in this room,
who has walked every hall in the Louvre with me. It took us three days.
I have been familiar with the institution of the apprentices that worked in the shops of the master artists and craftsmen.
Especially during the Renaissance, the great artists had workshops,
where they employed apprentices to help them produce their masterpieces. Remember the Lord's conversation with Moses:
"And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten" (Moses 1:6).
In Heavenly Father's shop, we, like Moses, are both God's masterpieces in process—
"in the similitude of mine Only Begotten"—as well as His sons and daughters,
whom He has engaged in His workshop as apprentices, when he says, "I have a work for you."
So here we are, at this very moment in our lives in the process of creation—
of choosing between the natural man and becoming, through the power and grace of our Savior,
individuals in the image and likeness of God.
As apprentices in His workshop, the Lord has called us to work with Him in producing His masterpieces—
His children in His own image.
In order to help us to know the Master, Heavenly Father has sent His Only Begotten Son to earth to reveal to us the Father:
"The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do" (John 5:19).
Thus Jesus Christ came to earth as Heavenly Father's masterpiece, in His image
as well as in the image of a man, and through His Atonement He became the Master of the workshop.
What we learn from the life of the Savior is that His primary attribute is love.
He loves His Father and He loves us, and He expects us, as His creations and as His apprentices, to love one another:
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:35).