Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) Ephesians 2:5 (KJV)

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 (New International Version, NIV)

Without Christ in us and us in Him, we’re dead in sins, separated from God and the God kind of life. To live life- real life- we must have God, because He IS life. When we accept Jesus as Savior and Lord and begin to let Him live in and through us, we can live life the way God intended.

We’ve been made alive together with Christ. God raised Jesus from the dead, and because we are in Christ, we were also raised from the dead and all that death brings- separation from God, misery, pain, guilt…. You’re not really living until Christ is in you and you are in Christ!

Now, together with Christ, we can walk out this God life, because God is in us. In Ephesians 2:10, shown above, the word masterpiece is the Greek word poiema, or that which is made- it is where we get the word poem. We become the poem of God- a masterpiece that God is writing. We are like a fabric and God is making a brand new garment out of us- His garment of praise. We are a poem of praise. People can read and see our lives and the beautiful poem God is making of us. He is writing our life story, line by line, song by song, day by day by day for all to see. We are living out the glorious life God has designed for us. We are walking the path He has prepared and in the purpooses He has preplanned for us.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16 (New International Version, NIV)

God wrote down our days in a book and when we get born-again, we begin the journey of God’s good plan to make us His masterpiece. We live out who God is making us to be. Psalm 139 speaks of the life God has planned for us. It is a good life, not one of evil or ruin (Jeremiah 29:11). His plan is to prosper us and give us a good future.

As we receive Christ, He becomes our life. And He gives us a new life to live- the God life. It’s the life God had planned for us before any of our days ever were. We now live God’s life for us and He lives in us, through us, and with us, empowering us to live victoriously.