“WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP!”

Ephesians 2:8-10                                        (ESV)
“8 For BY GRACE you have been SAVED THROUGH FAITH.  And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of GOD,
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For “WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP”, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS FOR GOOD WORKS, which GOD prepared BEFOREHAND, that WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.”

Hearing Ephesians 2:8 quoted in church since I was a child, it comes as no surprise to me that JESUS CHRIST was required to purchase my salvation.  HE gave me a gift, something that I would never be able to purchase on my own, because of what I am made of, the seed of corruption (Galatians 6:8)!

This morning I choose to focus on Ephesians 2:10, “For “WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP”, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS FOR GOOD WORKS, which GOD prepared BEFOREHAND, that WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.”  Since we know that Colossians 1:16-20 says that through JESUS, everything that was CREATED came to be, how did we CHOOSE to be CHOSEN when we were DEAD IN OUR TRESPASSES, living for ourselves?

A wise man once said “Within the covers of the Bible are the ANSWERS for ALL THE PROBLEMS men face."  A description of the word “WORKMANSHIP”, according to one dictionary is “something effected, made, or produced : WORK”!  So Ephesians 2:10 is saying that “WE ARE SOMETHING AFFECTED, MADE, OR PRODUCED BY JESUS”, in the long version.  Even through my darkest, sin stained past, JESUS was protecting and guiding me, preventing me from drinking enough alcohol to ever be controlled by it, protecting me from ever trying illicit drugs, controlling my raging hormones as a teenager, and countless other things that GOD guided me through the wilderness by HIS GRACE and MERCY!

It took WORK by our CREATOR to get me to this point in my life, and HE’s not finished with me yet.  “WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP” is something that we should NEVER forget.  It required the PERFECT SON OF GOD living a spotless, blameless life to cover the sins that this wretched soul could never pay for.  And some people question my sanity when I worship and praise JESUS once or twice a week???  A better question might be, how can I NOT give all I have to honor and praise the ONE WHO said that “WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP” simply by Believing in HIS WORK on our behalf?