For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
The phrase "we are his workmanship" could just pass us by unless we consider who we are talking about. We are the hand-crafted workmanship of the creator of the universe. You are not some shoddily put together knock-off. You have been crafted by the master.
We see here the proper place for good works. They are not there to earn anything from God or to secure our salvation (v8-9). Good works are not the basis of our relationship with God, they are what God has created us for. God has prepared them beforehand for us to do. They flow out of our reconciliation to him, they are not the cause of it.
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