Today's devotion includes one of my favorite bible verses - Ephesians 2:10. Other translations translate it this way: "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand for us to do." The word "workmanship" is a very interesting Greek word with layers of meanings: poiema. (I once named my band after the verb form of this word, poiesis!) One of the uses in Greek for this word is for works of art. So we could translate this verse, "For we are God's artwork, created in Christ Jesus..."
You are God's artwork - God's masterpiece! This reminds me of Psalm 139, where the Psalmist says we are "fearfully and wonderfully made." You are not a haphazard, thoughtless creation. You are God's masterpiece, uniquely and lovingly created to reflect God's image in the world.
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