We Are God's Workmanship
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Article 32 of 34 from the Ponder This - 2000 series
August 2000 - What do you think God thinks about you? You’ve known for a long time that He loves you. But does He like you? When He looks at your life, do His eyes light up or does He look the other way?
Ephesians 2:10, speaking of all who have genuinely put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life and salvation, says, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” The Greek word translated “workmanship” here (poiema), from which we get our English word poem, meant “a thing that is made” and, by implication, a work of art, a masterpiece. “We are a divine work of art,” says C. S. Lewis. “A born-again believer is a masterpiece of God. When we think of the raw materials He has to work with, His achievement is all the more remarkable,” writes William MacDonald.
What we are and what we are becoming in Christ is all the work of a loving, merciful, creative God. “O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand” (Isaiah 64:8). “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (II Corinthians 5:17).
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The life of the believer in Jesus Christ has unparalleled potential for growth and progress, because God Himself is building our lives as we trust and obey Him. This is reason for great joy, “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6). Though yet in process, we are beautiful works of art because of Him.
So if at this present time your life appears to be a poem in a foreign language or an abstract painting no one understands, don’t despair. God’s work can’t always be seen with human eyes. No matter how it looks to you, He is making something beautiful of your life. So cooperate with Him, trust Him, let Him do His work. “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?’” (Isaiah 45:9). Don’t doubt-believe. The Potter knows what He is doing!
“You are not a worm, nor a wonder. You are the ordinary, becoming the extraordinary, all due to Him” (E. Stanley Jones).
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