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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

—Eph 2:10

• It is amazing what gifted craftsmen can produce. Shapeless blocks of stone or wood are sculpted into works of art. Old dilapidated houses are transformed into modern, attractive homes. Craftsmen create that which is both pleasing and functional. They don’t make junk.

• God is the finest Craftsman. He takes the base material of our lives and transforms it into something beautiful and useful for his glory and service. Just as people admire a craftsman’s handiwork, so we ought to strive to be the kind of people who reflect favorably on our Master Craftsman.

• Praise God that even though we are still under construction, we are confident of the end product: “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil 1:6).