You are God’s workmanship. Think about this for two seconds: You are God’s inheritance. Ephesians chapter 1—Paul says God’s priceless inheritance is you. That’s right. You.

Picture a kid promised a $50 million masterpiece painting as their inheritance on their 20th birthday. That’s how God sees you. You are His masterpiece inheritance—not because of your sweat and merit, but because of His work and grace. But make no mistake: you are still an awesome masterpiece.

We are what we are by God’s workmanship, and so we never boast that we did the work. And yet we are still what we are, we are the righteousness of God, powerful, healed, and straight-up awesome.

The gospel is God giving to you, not you giving to God. You are a treasure, a beautiful inheritance God crafted for Himself, precisely to show off how awesome you are. And in showing you off, He shows off how awesome He is. God does the work and gives to you; you don’t give to God.

Here’s the kicker: the less blessed and awesome you are, the harder it is for God to boast about how awesome you are—and the less glory you bring Him.

That’s the whole point. You are His point. He’s showing you off.

He didn’t rescue you so you could turn around and start “chipping in” like some cosmic dualism tag-team. He did the planning. He did the saving. He did the redeeming. He did all the heavy lifting. Every bit of it. And He did it so the universe would look at you and see exactly how generous, how powerful, how glorious He really is—by showing off how amazing you are. You are not running the show. You are the beautiful exhibit. The finished masterpiece He hung in the gallery with the lights already blazing, showing every detail of your awesomeness.

When you camp out in hot-mess territory—sick in your body, tight in your finances, sinful addictions, anxious in your mind, barely holding it together—you’re not just having a rough season. You are actively fighting against the very reason He made you new. It’s like the Master Artist finishes the portrait, puts it under perfect light, and you keep throwing a tarp over it because you think looking defeated is somehow more spiritual.

Or worse—some folks let Satan stroll right up, hand him the spray can, and watch as he tags God’s masterpiece with the graffiti of sickness, poverty, and obscurity. Then they have the balls to call that vandalism “God’s will.” The faithless let the devil victimize them and then have the gall to call the resulting ugly mess God’s beautiful artwork. That mindset is worthless.

God prepared good works for you to walk in. He seated you in heavenly places on purpose. He did it so that in the coming ages—and right now—He could display the immeasurable riches of His grace through the kindness He lavished on you in Christ. That display isn’t optional. It’s why you exist as a new creation. Its how you glorify God.

The substitutionary atonement didn’t stop at sin and sanctification. Jesus became poor so you could be rich. He bore curses and wore a crown of thorns so you could walk in Abrahams’ extravagant blessing. He took the stripes so the healing was already yours. Every single part was God giving. Your only job? Agree with Him and thank Him.

When symptoms scream, old additions resurface, or your bank account whispers lack, that’s the flesh yanking your eyes back to the old-man “before” picture. Faith looks at the occupied throne and declares, “He already did it. It’s mine. I receive it now.” God doesn’t find fault with you when you ask big. He sees Christ’s perfect righteousness stamped across your account. So ask for the wisdom. Command your healing. Command your provision. Walk in God’s righteousness and His mighty power as your own—because it’s been given to you. Believe you have received it the moment you speak it, and reality will line up with the Word.

God wants to boast about you. He wants to show you off as glorious and precious—living proof that His gospel works, that His power is still running wild in the earth, that His love doesn’t do stingy. Do not rob Him of the brag by keeping the lights off and the sheet on. Don’t let the devil’s graffiti of sickness and defeat steal your glory and, in the process, steal God’s chance to brag about how awesome you are.

Receive the full package. Command the mountain of sickness and lack to move. Let the spotlight hit the masterpiece. Let the world see what happens when God gets to show off through one of His own.

This is the normal Christian life. It’s a life where you show off God by bragging about how He’s your Savior. It’s also the life where God shows you off and brags about how awesome you are. Therefore, be awesome in the power of Christ.

If you are born from above, then you are a new creation.

God thinks you are awesome. And if no one’s ever told you—I think you’re awesome too.