God’s Extreme Makeover

Meditations on the Book of Ephesians

May 20, 2020

God’s Extreme Makeover

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

Read: Ephesians 2:8-10

In Ephesians 1:11, Paul affirmed that God “makes everything work out according to his plan.” In the previous passage, Paul affirmed our salvation is a gift of God’s grace. He continues that theme for the first few verses in today’s passage then he tells us why God saved us. What is God’s plan?

In verse 10, Paul affirms that salvation is God’s Extreme Makeover of us: “For we are God’s masterpiece.” Then Paul tells us why God gives us this makeover: “He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

Some people think that salvation is about God saving them so that when they die they will go to heaven. However, that is not at all what Paul believed is it? Our mission is to make disciples for Jesus – these are the good things God planned for us. Our mission is to be a co-laborer with Jesus so that God’s Kingdom will come on earth as it is in heaven – these are the good things God planned for us.

My Takeaway: We, each of us, have been commissioned by God to do the good things he planned for us long ago. The first step in fulfilling God’s purpose for us is to accept Ephesians 2:10 as true for our life.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

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