God’s Handiwork

This last week my daughter, Rishana, made her niece a new sweater. It is a beautiful light blue, with off-white buttons and a hood. Bexlie loves it and wants to wear it everywhere. If you ask her who made it for her she says, “Tata!”, which is what she calls Rishana.
For Tata Rishana, making the sweater was a labor of love. Every movement of her crochet hook was done out of love for her little niece. She wanted to create something special for this little girl who has worked her way into all our hearts. Her handiwork was an expression of how much Bexlie means to her.
Paul says, in Ephesians, that I am “God’s handiwork” (Ephesians 2:10a NIV). In fact, Psalm 139:13 says that God “created my inmost being; [He] knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
I am God’s labor of love and so are you. We are each a unique gift God has given to the world, “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10b).
Today, when the devil whispers in your ear that you’re nothing special, remind Him you are a child of God, His handiwork. You were created for a reason, to show God’s love to the world. Then get out there and do the work God made you to do, letting “your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16).