Good Works

Ephesians 2: 10 

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus

to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

            This verse has been especially sweet to me the past couple of days.  We have been honored to have a friend and her infant son stay with us.  Each morning as that beautiful baby woke, we all swarmed in to see his first stretches and his first attempts at “talking.”

            The children and I have had to “draw straws” over who was going to feed, change and hold him first.  In the midst of our fascination with this little miracle we all began to speak a little more expressive and demonstrative.  We have had a ball loving on this little life.

               I have loved saying to him each morning, “I wonder what the Lord has planned for you today? And as we bathed him and prepared him for bedtime, I would ask, “What were the good works you did for your Heavenly Father today?”  

               His mother shared with me that others have commented that this new little life has been a “blessing” to others.  She said she has been praying that he would be a blessing, but she really thought it was futuristic.

Psalm 8: 2

 “From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise.”

                This post begs the question, “How do you value your children and the works God has planned for them?”  Not works for the future (although that is true) but works for the moment.  Whether your infant is napping in your arms, or he has grown and is diligently starting a job, I challenge you to see them filled with the potential God has for them.

            Encourage your children to find the “good works” God has for them.  Enjoy the “workmanship” and their good works God has loaned to you!