For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2.10)

It never ceases to amaze that we have been made with purpose and intention. There was no haphazard accident that produced each and every individual through the course of human history. The same deliberate care that God took forming Adam from the dust, shaping Eve from his side, is the same intentional loving care with which God shaped and formed us in our mothers’ wombs. Our Father is a loving and conscious creator. Just as the painter takes each stroke into mind as He brings images to life so the Father shaped our personalities through His Son Jesus. Just as the composer pens each note, every inspired trill carefully placed on the sheet so the Father placed the impressions of Jesus onto the sheet music of our souls.

Jesus is the tool that our Divine Master Craftsman used to create us. Every man, woman and child have been made in the loving hand of the Father. Jesus is the etching tool that cuts through the clay of our mere existence and gives our lives purpose. As we baked in the kiln of this life each symbol, each expression of Jesus’ beauty is fired on to our form.

And this is where Jesus’ work becomes all the more rich. We have not only been made, we have been made useful, made functional, made intentionally for a purpose. We have been made in Jesus for good works, expressing the love of the Father and the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit before the nations.

Jesus, as I look over my life today I can see where you have been at working cutting away and creating, shaping me and producing holiness in my life. I rejoice that I have been created in you.