We are God's beloved

We know that we’re Christ’s workmanship, but sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are also God’s creative work. You and I weren’t just stamped into being, like a gear or a cog, we were lovingly, and carefully crafted in the hands of the ultimate craftsman. The same brilliance that wove a tapestry of color into the wings of a butterfly put you together.

The details that God packed into you, the care he took in creating you, are easy to forget in our day to day. In a life that often asks of us, “What can you do for me?” It’s important to remember that God deliberately planned for you, created you, is delighted by you, and calls you beloved.

Romans 9:25 says, "As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.'" Today, apart from anything you have done or will do, know that you are beloved. God has called you his own.

Is it easier for you to think of yourself as a thing of function or a thing of beauty? How does that change your view of God?


Romans 9:25