Life a Poem

Man has but one life to live, and each must be desirous that that life should tell to the very uttermost for God and for humanity. In Ephesians 2:10 we find words which will help us as long as we live:

“We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

The word “created” in the Greek is “poem.”¹ We are God’s poems. I suppose that each life is a definite thought of God. He has incarnated one original idea in each of us. As no poet repeats himself, but puts a distinct thought in each ode or poem, so God never repeats Himself in any human life. He breaks the mold as soon as He completes His work. Let us remember, therefore, to be original. I lost ten of the best years of my life by trying to imitate other people. Although we may all derive help from the study of biography and from friendship, yet we must always be going back to God to know what He means for us, and then ask Him to work out in our lives His thought to the very highest possibility.

Are you prepared to accept this, and to yield yourself to God day by day that He may accomplish through you the full purpose of His will, and

¹Actually, “workmanship” is ποίημα which is something that is worked on and prepared, and from which our English word from Poem comes. “Created” is κτίζω which is something that is founded and built—PCAM.