Handiwork of God

UV 3619/10000. Handiwork of God For we are God’s handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2 v 10 God has created us in the mould of the Prototype Jesus, His first born Son. We are to resemble Him not in our physical appearance but in His character, communication and conduct. From the foundation of the universe, the Lord has prepared the prototype, the master design in which we are created. We are not machine-made replicas that roll of an assembly line of heaven but we are carefully, beautifully, woven together cell by cell, organ by organ in our mothers’ wombs. The purpose of our creation is two fold: one, to be in the image of Christ and two, to do good works like Him. This is the good life, philosophers of yore spoke and wrote about. We were created in the image of God, the Father with knowledge and wisdom but since we are autonomous, we chose to depart from His ways. On account of His great, inexplicable and incomprehensible love of God for the crown of His creation, mankind, He then set about re-creating or redeeming us in the image of Christ, His anointed Son. Now, we live our lives with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. We are now being moulded in the image of the Son by the Holy Spirit who is like a spiritual sculptor who uses the chisel of the word and the spirit to prompt, to inspire good deeds like Jesus. Hence, there is the participation of the three persons of the Trinity in our creation, redemption and transformation. Our faith in Christ is the root that connects us to the three, the good root. The Holy Spirit overshadows us like He did Mary, the mother as a virgin, induces the growth with the watering of the word that softens the hard soil of our hearts inured hitherto to sin. Instead of being pregnant with sin or full of sin, we now become pregnant with good thoughts, ideas and good deeds like Jesus. The foretypes of Christ Jesus were Joseph, Moses, Joshua. Today, the Lord has destined that we are the post types of Jesus, similar to Jesus but each an unique masterpiece filled with the Master’s peace.