"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)
THE POTTER. Jeremiah 18.2-4.
[CHAT II]
"We are His Workmanship"
"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)
HAVE you ever made anything? I am sure you have. It may have only been a paper boat, or a doll's frock, but you were very proud of it at the time. Perhaps one of you may have made a real toy boat and taken it down to the pond to sail it. How anxious you were to see if it was a success or a failure! How pleased you were when some grown up person took it into his hand and looked at it, and said, "It does you credit!" Think how busy people are, all over the world, making things—watches, clocks, motors, aeroplanes, guns, books, pictures, machines of all sorts and sizes.
If you talk to them, you will soon find that they are all anxious about one thing, and that is for their work and invention to be a success, to fulfil the purpose for which they made it. They want their watches and clocks to keep good time, their motors and air machines to move swiftly and easily, and not to be failures. They don't want their inventions to lie useless and idle, and what is the good of them if they do that?
Almighty God has made this world and all the wonderful and beautiful things in it, but of all the things that He has made, the most precious in His sight is a human soul. There are a great many of us. Some are black, some are white, some are born in rich circumstances, some in poverty.
Some are strong. Some are weak. But we are all His workmanship, and He made us—each one of us for a purpose.