Good Works


For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 HCSB

We are engineered by his design; he molded and manufactured us in Christ. We are his workmanship, his poetry. (God finds inspired expression of Christ in us. The Greek word for workmanship is 1.poemia) We are fully fit to do good, equipped to give attractive evidence of his likeness in us in everything we do. (God has done everything possible to find spontaneous and effortless expression of his character in us in our everyday lifestyle. The word, 2,proetimatso translates a notion that God has prepared a highway for us to lead us out like kings, just like the Oriental custom, where people would go before a king to level the roads to make it possible for the king to journey with ease and comfort. [Isa 40:3-5])
[Ephesians 2:10]
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God knows exactly what we will be. He has written a poem about us. As a grandmother I look at my grandchildren with eyes looking for God's workmanship in them. When I discover it I encourage it. This is how God is with us: "Look want I have given you! You are unique, one of a kind."

When we compare ourselves we belittle Him. When we reject ourselves we reject Him. We need to allow ourselves to be who and what we are created to be. Amen.

Many years ago I discovered the verse in Genesis where God said: 'let us make man in our own image and our own likeness.' I realised that the God who created the universe made me like Him, therefore I must be creative, I was. Until that time a I had never wanted to be creative, now I am because I am like my daddy. Amen!

Don't take the above verse as a condemnation but rather an invitation to shine!

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