Ephesians 2:10 NIV
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
A friend recently wrote a blog post containing this verse. She used a translation that used the word "masterpiece" instead of "workmanship". It really stuck out to me that God made me with intention and purpose. I'm not just another human on the assembly line of creation, but I'm one of His masterpieces, and he has good works ready and waiting for me (and you, too!).
I have loved this verse since I was a teenager, but never taken the time to memorize it word for word, so hopefully now I will!
ReplyDelete"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26 (ESV)
"I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good to me." Psalm 13:6, NIV
ReplyDelete“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
ReplyDeletePsalm 84:11 ESV
Continuing to work on this...
ReplyDelete“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,”
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV
Ephesians 4:23-24 (ESV) "…and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."
ReplyDelete"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish your plans." Proverbs 16:3
ReplyDeleteContinuing my Ephesians 1 passage:
ReplyDelete"And you also were included in Christ when you heard the Word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit," Ephesians 1:13
Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. Nehemiah 9:21 (ESV). I find this a good reminder in a world of 'want, want, want' and 'you deserve it' that God provides for us what we need most. He did this for Isreal when they were complaining, grumbling, and turning from him. We are abundantly blessed.
ReplyDeleteBehold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. Isaiah 12:2
ReplyDeleteI don't think I posted last time either...bah!
ReplyDeleteI've been working on Psalm 1:1-6 this month.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
“The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.”
ReplyDeleteProverbs 4:7 NIV
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 13:12