A Reflection

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do.  (Eph. 2:10)

I’ve been thinking about this verse ever since the chapel speaker used it as his text today.

“We are God’s workmanship”

When I think of God’s workmanship, I tend to think of the mountains that flank the west side of the Springs—majestic and awesome, a display of power. Or I’m drawn to the beauty and delicateness of a flower—fragrant, inviting.

I don’t tend to think of myself, really. Maybe I should. And what does that mean if a simple person, such as I, is the very workmanship of God?

“Created in Christ Jesus”

I think that I need to ponder more often that I’m created in Jesus—not of myself, but that His death on the cross has made me new, and I am not what I was or would have been.

“to do good works”

I spend a lot of my time working, but honestly, most of that is not “good works.” It’s just plain work. I think if I were to do good works, they would be things I do for other people.

“which God prepared in advance for us to do”

Think on that…that God planned particular things, good things, for each of us to do. It seems incomprehensible that He planned specific things, good things, for me—for you—for us to do.

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do.  (Eph. 2:10)