“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10 (KJV).
The scripture above is in three parts: First: God made man a masterpiece of His creation for His glory. For man, God said; “let us make man in our image and likeness, so they can function like us. (Genesis 2). When the first Adam disobeyed, God in His mercy, gave birth to the new creation through the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Second: We are created in Christ Jesus. James 1:18 says, “Of his own will begat he us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures”. We are joint heirs with Christ. Third: we are created for good works. Just like our Lord Jesus, you came in the volume of what is written concerning you to fulfill it. You are now the extension of God in the earth realm and He functions through you, reconciling men unto Himself, and displaying His virtues everywhere (1 Peter 2:9).
You may ask what are the good works; they are the expressions of love (1 Corinthians 13). God wants us to care for our family first—those in the household of faith, especially orphans and widows. (James 1:27). Also consider those in a spiritual and physical prison, the sick, the hungry, and strangers: “For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me [with help and ministering care]; I was in prison, and you came to Me [ignoring personal danger].’ The King will answer and say to them, ‘I assure you and most solemnly say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it for Me” Matthew 25:35-36, 40 (AMP). This is how we display His glory: by doing the good works we are fashioned to do in every place in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER / CONFESSION
Dear Father, I take grace to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress. Keep me uncontaminated by the secular world in the name of the Lord Jesus.
WISDOM NUGGET
“Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him” Isaiah 43:7 (NKJV)