“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2:10, NLT).

Have you seen the BBC series called, Planet Earth? We love it in our home. It has hours of the most amazing footage ever taken of our planet. I’m left speechless every time I watch it. But you know what amazes me more? How we can lift our eyes with admiration when we see the earth and drop them in disappointment when we look at ourselves. 

Wasn’t the same artist who brushed the shade in the sky, the one who also swirled the colors in our eyes? Wasn’t the same sculptor who formed the mountains, the one who also shaped our frame? Wasn’t the same architect who sketched the bottom of the oceans, the same one who designed the intricacies of our senses? The earth bears his signature, but so do we. So how can we smile at one and frown at the other? 

Of course, you might say the problem is that we’re fallen, tainted, no longer the beauty that God intended? True. That is (or was) our problem. (We’ll talk more about that later.) But for now, notice what it says in the Ephesians verse, “He has created us anew in Christ Jesus.” If you’re in Christ, then not only did the Master put his mark on you when you were born, but he has revamped you completely, through Jesus, and put his seal of approval on you, through the Holy Spirit, for all time. You’re a masterpiece twice over. Not only do you bear his signature, but also he has taken up residence in your heart. If the BBC understood the significance of that then they’d do a series on every Christian on the planet. The earth bears God’s signature, but you bear his presence.

And God himself looks at you and says, “Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! That’s my best work yet!”

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