You are NOT an Obstacle to God

For we are God’s masterpiece [poema, Gk].
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

Brothers and sisters in Christ,

Please hear this.

You are not an obstacle to God.

You are His beloved child, His instrument to express His Life on this earth. You are His work of art, His '“poem” He is speaking into His world through you.

Others may think of you as an obstacle, but God is bigger than that. He uses you in your circumstances and relationships to express who He is. Yes, even in your mistakes and failures and fleshly ways. He can turn them around for your good and His amazing purposes today.

Think on these heart-filling Scriptures, and we will “talk” more next time:

For we are God’s masterpiece [poema, Gk]. 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

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children,
and that is what we are!
But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
1 John 3:1-2 NLT

For God is working in you,
giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
Philippians 2:13 NLT

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments as for righteousness.
Romans 6:13 NLT

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.
1 Thessalonians 5 23-24 NLT

And my personal favorite:

Now may the God of peace—
    who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus,
the great Shepherd of the sheep,
    and ratified an eternal covenant with his blood—
may he equip you with all you need
    for doing his will.
May he produce in you,
    through the power of Jesus Christ,
every good thing that is pleasing to him.
    All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21 NLT

See you next time. Blessings! Jan