Ephesians 2:10 ~ You're a Masterpiece

 

Ephesians 2:10

NKJV

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

NLT

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

 

Masterpiece: a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.

 

I’ve heard this word used to describe everything from food to a play in a football game. I think when we do this, it kind of cheapens the word. Is a piece of cake a masterpiece or is it just a piece of cake. Not doubt, it’s good cake…but it’s still just cake. a good play in a football game, is still just a play in football game. How do each of these compare to the thousand of other cakes and plays? Is it just a masterpiece until the next really good one comes along?

 

God calls us His workmanship, His masterpiece, or His artwork, from the Greek word poiēma. We are something crafted, with skill and a purpose, by God, for His purposes. Specifically, we are "created in Christ Jesus for good works." Good works do not give us salvation, but they are absolutely meant to be the result of salvation.

 

But I want to focus on the creation, that God created, and is called His masterpiece. You and I are that MASTERPIECE! God created us with outstanding artistry and skill. Yet, we often don’t act like it. We are "created or formed" by Him, not only in the general sense in which all things are made by Him, but in that special sense which is denoted by the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are made new in Jesus Christ, anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

 

It's time to start acting like we are masterpieces!  No longer are you to fat, to skinny, not pretty enough, not skillful enough; all these things that we as people tell ourselves, that come straight from the mouth of satan. You are a masterpiece…God made us that way with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  You don’t have to submit to any of the desires that our natural bodies throw at us.  START ACTING LIKE YOU’RE SPECIAL! You are, Christ died to prove it.

 

I’m a masterpiece,

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