For we are God's masterpiece. 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

I love that God calls us His "Masterpiece". God, the maker of everything that is, sees us as His best creation. He is proud of us, He brags on us. But, there is a part of the above scripture that got my attention even more. ".....;...so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago." How long has God been planning on me? How long has He been waiting for me to "do good things? All of creation? Since WAY before I was born? Yes. God knew about me and you long before our ancestors were born. Millions and millions of years ago we were on His mind. This "blows me away".
The God of all, the maker of the universe was thinking about me and you while He was busy making Adam and Eve and the Earth and everything else. He was thinking about me and you when he hung the moon in place and the stars and our sun. He was thinking about me as His son Jesus, was hanging on the cross dying for me. God has a plan for everyone of us. These plans have been in place forever, it seems. Talk about patience, God IS patience just as God is love.

What are these plans of good things I am to do? I don't know, But God does. How do we find them, follow the right path in our lives? OK, here we go again, that word: Patience, and trust. I know, I know, that word Patience keeps popping up, doesn't it? Hebrews 11:6
And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him."

What is Faith made up? I think it is made up of allot of Patience. You feel there is something you need to do, but it isn't the right time, or it feels like the right thing to say, but there are to many people around right now, this needs to be said in private. Patience, like faith is needed to "Please God", I believe.

Remember when your kids were little, and you had "Grand Plans" for them? My daughter was a math whizz from early on. I just knew she could be a Engineer or a Scientist and make allot of money and buy me a house. But she followed HER dreams and became a fantastic Algebra 2 high school teacher. My son was very good at baseball and soccer and I would tell him when he made it to the pro's, I would like a new house. He, likewise, didn't listen to me:), followed his dreams and is a musician, and a fantastic video, audio editor. I was kidding, of course, but I did have "Great Plans" to see their potential. God has "Great Plans" for each and every one of us. These plans have been in store since time began. You see, as parents, we know what WE want our kids to be, to follow after us, to make something wonderful out of themselves, but we do not know their hearts, the dreams. God does, though. He made us, He knows our desires, our dreams, our abilities, because He put them in us. So when He has dreams for us, guess what? They are our dreams also. I don't believe God dreams for us, as much as He takes our dreams that He already placed in us and makes them much much bigger. We, as human beings, have no idea of our potential, God does. We feel so small, "How can we make a difference?" God knows exactly how we can make a difference. He has planned on our part in this world million of years ago.

Our dreams are His, because He put them there. But how do we achieve these dreams? OK, now lets look at the first part of the scripture above: "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus.............." We are not that same old person we used to be. God has "created us anew in Christ Jesus" Why did He do this? ......."So we can do the good things He planned for us long ago"

I still can't get over the fact that God calls us His Masterpiece. That is totally awesome. We are daVinci's "Mono Lisa" or "The Last Supper", We are Picasso's masterpieces, worth more then any other creation of God the Father. When God made us He was SO proud of us, His creation. But more then this, He loves us, He cares for us, He does not think of us as His creations, but His children. He has great and mighty things for us, that we cannot even imagine.

So go ahead, DREAM, DREAM BIG. God has good plans for us, His dreams ARE our dreams, just bigger.

God does not, like a priceless painting, hang us on the wall and show us off. He wants us to be happy, joyful, forgive the saying, but "All that we can be". We are so much more then we think, He knows our potential, we just need to see it through His eyes.

Don't EVER think that God has no plan for your life. He has a plan for everyone here on earth, otherwise He would have taken you home to be with Him. Complete your potential, finish the "good work" He has in store for you, and then you will be rewarded forever with Him.

Jeremiah 29: 11: " For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."

See He has plans for us for "good and not for disaster............" Our plans are in line with His plans, just acknowledge that and seek His will. Trust, patience, faith, we must have these to go forward in Jesus Christ. But when we do, WOW.