“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (2:10).
Even from childhood we enjoy creating something with our hands. My grandchildren love to give their “papa” things they have made and I love to receive them. Did you know that you are God’s workmanship?
We are God’s workmanship in creation. He declared that all His work was “good,” but on the final day of creation, when man was created in God’s image, God declared that it was “very good.” In man, God could most clearly display His glory. Man fell into sin and the image of God in man was distorted, but in Christ that image is fully restored so that we are fully “His workmanship.”
Our new birth is a new divine act of creation. Men and women in Christ are new creatures. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Cor. 5:17). By our faith union with Christ, our old sin scarred lives are made new and thus we now display the workmanship of God.
Does your life, your words, your behavior, your attitude tell others that you are God’s workmanship. Do your friends see the workmanship of God displayed in your life?
Prayer: Father, thank you for saving me. May I be a visible picture of Your workmanship. Amen