I just ran across this article, “You are God’s Workmanship,” from Desiring God, written by Jon Bloom. It was too good not to share.
I especially think it’s a great resource for parents, who are teaching their kids that they are not insignificant and are so special to God, to read and draw from.
“What Paul, and God through Paul, wants you to understand is this: You are an epic poem, a God-imaging poiema — become flesh and spirit. Your poem contains all the comedic and tragic drama of an existence more real and more meaningful than you have yet to comprehend. If you think you are a boring work of prose, you don’t yet see things as they really are. You are afflicted with a sin-induced cataract in the eye of the heart. But it is God’s intention and delight to heal your sight (Ephesians 1:18).
Read the whole article here:
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/you-are-gods-workmanship