It has been a while since I have written. Forgive me for that lapse, but life has gotten in the way of late. This morning in Men’s Bible Study we looked at Ephesians 2:10 where Paul states that we are God’s workmanship.

Not to get overly technical, but in the Greek the word for workmanship is Poiema, a word that carries the idea of creation or workmanship. I like to translate this that we are the masterpieces created by God. Our lives are the Poems written by God.

We are the lumps of clay in the hands of the Master Potter – being created by Him just as He pleases.

Paul will go on and declare that in this marvelous thing we call the church God has broken down the walls of hostility and united all of us in this one wonderful family. Now, can you imagine if you were painting a masterpiece and the only color on your palette was white? What would the picture might look like? Of if the only color you had was one shade of brown?

But in the masterpiece God has painted there is every color of the rainbow, every color imaginable. What a gloriously wonderful picture God has painted. We are his masterpiece.

But, we are to be more than a masterpiece that sits over the fireplace mantle. We are created by God, fashioned by Him, for good works. We are fashioned by Him that the world might see the glory and character of God shining in and through us.

May the world read the poems of our lives and come to know our loving God who fashioned each one of us for His glory!