Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, October 20 (2:10)
“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.
TWICE this word, here translated “workmanship” is used in the epistles of Paul. In Romans 1:20 it is translated “things that are made.” It is the Greek word poima, from which we get our English word “poem.” A poem is a well-constructed literary piece, the work of a master mind. In Romans 1 we see the creation as God’s great epic poem. In Ephesians 2 we have the poem of redemption.
Each saved one is, so to speak, a syllable in this great masterpiece, this marvelous poem, that tells out, as nothing else could, the wondrous wisdom and grace of God. How lyrical should be our lives as we enter into and appreciate this!
—Ryland.