Workmanship

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

This weekend will be the final weekend of our State Fair here in Nebraska. I’m very excited, because this proud mama gets to take her daughter to the fair so that we can see her purple ribbon award on her recipe file. Having watched every step in her process of completing this and many other 4-H projects this year, I know just how hard she worked and am so happy to watch her see her efforts pay off.

The workmanship that she put into finding, preparing, and writing these recipes is one part of this award winning project, the other part of this award winning project is the very special box that is holding the recipes. One loving uncle with a special gift for working with wood added his own workmanship to her project by making a beautiful wooden recipe box to hold all of her work. Together their workmanship created something great that will be around for a very long time and will be used over and over again.

Our text today calls us God’s workmanship. We were each lovingly and carefully created by God. Just like my daughter’s 4-H project was not made to just sit on a shelf, we were not made by God’s hand to do nothing either. We are all created, each in our own unique ways to bring God glory through the work we do, using the different talents that He has blessed each of us with.

When we use our talents and gifts to give glory to our Creator, we are sharing His love for us in His Son Jesus, our Savior. The work that we do in the name of our Lord will have lasting effects that will be around for a very long time as people are brought to the saving message of faith by the Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God did not spare anything in making each and every one of us and it must make Him so happy when He sees all of His efforts pay off.

Go! Be God’s workmanship today! Use the unique gifts and talents that He created in you to bless those that you will come in contact with today. Be a blessing to others, just as He has abundantly poured His many blessings on you.

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You, that You created each of us and that we are Your workmanship. Help us Lord to praise You for Your gift of Grace through faith by using our good works to bring others to You. We pray this in Jesus name, Amen.