Weekly Devotion
February 22, 2026

YOU ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE

This past Wednesday we entered the Season of Lent in preparation to focus on Christ’s great sacrifice and to celebrate the miracle of His resurrection. I imagine many of you have a “tradition” that you practice over these 40 days. Perhaps you deny yourself one of your earthly delights such as chocolate or playing games on your devices. Or maybe you choose to be more intentional about prayer/devotional time.

I invite you to take a look at what Paul writes in Ephesians 2: 1—10 about our situation or status before we became His masterpiece. His language is very clear, no grey areas or doubts—it was, what it was.
-We were dead as we walked in our state of trespasses and sins, under the power of the deceiver.
-We lived for the passions of the world in idolatry like everyone else.

BUT even in our state of being dead—GOD LOVED US and in His rich mercy gave us LIFE together with Christ. By His grace we have been saved—not because of anything we did, so that we have absolutely no room for boasting.
This is the MYSTERY God held secret until JESUS!

God gave us the path for of LIFE when we believed and received the incredible wealth of His grace and kindness and were united with Christ Jesus. Consider what this means as Paul outlines it here:
-We are raised from being dead to being alive with Christ and….
-We are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places—no waiting, this is our place today, right now!
-We are alive in this world so God can point us out as examples of His incredible wealth of grace and kindness as we are forever united with Him in Christ.
-We are the recipients of God’s great gift of salvation, there is nothing we can do to earn it.
-We are God’s masterpiece, created by Him in His image and we are now re-created through Jesus Christ our Lord and reflect His image. -We are designed by God to embrace His plan for our individual lives and to be part of the Body of Christ, His church.

During these days of Lent, take a bit of time, or lots of time, to feast on God’s amazing plan of salvation for all people, everywhere. A review is always helpful along our journey of faith. Think upon the life He breathed into you at birth and the NEW LIFE He breathed into you as you received His gift of salvation from His abundant love for you. 

With Paul… pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3:16—19

On my knees,
Kathy