Have you ever really poured yourself into something.  Maybe it was a project for work or a home improvement project.  Maybe you built something yourself.  Perhaps you made a work of art.  When you pour yourself into something like that you feel a sense of pride and ownership in what you have done.  You have made a masterpiece.  In Ephesians 2 we are told that we are God’s masterpiece.  Let’s look at that passage together today. 

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

The Greek language used here in verse 10 which we translate handiwork means the skilled work of a master craftsman.  That’s what you are from God.  You are His masterpiece.  Created by Him to do good works which he has prepared in advance for you to do.  These works do not earn us favor with God but are a result of the work He has already done in our lives found in the previous verses.  God has a plan and a job for you that He specifically designed and created you to do.  You were made with a purpose.  I don’t know about you but to know that I am God’s masterpiece created for a purpose makes me want to get to work fulfilling that purpose.  Go out and be the masterpiece that you are!

In His Grip,

Pastor Dave