You Are A Masterpiece

The Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:9-10, For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

You are God’s masterpiece, the crown of all creation. You were created in the image of God. You were created by our heavenly Father for a good purpose. If you are in Christ, it doesn’t matter how you feel about yourself, “I’m not that good, I’m not that talented.” No, you’ve been made new. You’ve been remade. You are the masterpiece of God.

Maybe you, like many others, look at your life and think, “This is not a masterpiece.” Maybe you once had a dream, an idea, or a picture of what you thought your life would be like. But somewhere along the way, something went wrong. In Jeremiah, chapter 18, the Lord tells the prophet to go visit the potter and watch him work the clay. Verse 4 says, [The potter] was using his hands to make a pot from clay, but something went wrong with it. So he used that clay to make another pot the way he wanted it to be. Our heavenly Father is the potter, we are the clay!

God can take everything that is wrong in your life…the pain, the failures, the bad choices…and He can make it into something beautiful and useful. In Christ, you are God’s masterpiece, created to do good things that God planned long ago.

Maybe you are going through a challenging time right now. Let me encourage you with this truth from Philippians 1:6 – Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion… God is not done with you. He is going to work out ALL things for your good because you love him (Romans 8:28). You are God’s masterpiece created new in Christ Jesus.