I realized something today. There is something that happens to me every time I watch a painter create a picture on a canvas. It doesn't matter the type of canvas or the type of paint. It doesn't even matter what it is they are creating. What happens is this...
I watch the creator paint, layer after layer, creating new levels of that painting, sewing the scene together with the different colors of paint.
Every time I watch, I am intrigued and then, it gets to a level that I am perfectly pleased with (so I think). "It's done!" is what I think to myself.
Then the painter will ruin the picture! A few white specks here, or black lines there... And I think, "Oh no!! They are messing it up!"
But then that painter begins to work in those specks or lines and begins blending it into the painting... And then the random specks or lines become creative genius that I would have never thought to add to the painting that I thought was done. By the time the painter is done, it is incredible, and I remember why the PAINTER was the one creating that painting and not me.
When this happened to me again today, I realized God is the painter. Our lives are the canvas. If we allow Him, God will paint a story and purpose on the canvas of our lives. Layer upon layer, color upon color. Adding new things to our lives - sometimes things, circumstances, or people that we think are just randomly thrown into our "perfect picture" that appear to mess things up. But we have to trust the Painter, the Creator. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours.
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."
I watch the creator paint, layer after layer, creating new levels of that painting, sewing the scene together with the different colors of paint.
Every time I watch, I am intrigued and then, it gets to a level that I am perfectly pleased with (so I think). "It's done!" is what I think to myself.
Then the painter will ruin the picture! A few white specks here, or black lines there... And I think, "Oh no!! They are messing it up!"
But then that painter begins to work in those specks or lines and begins blending it into the painting... And then the random specks or lines become creative genius that I would have never thought to add to the painting that I thought was done. By the time the painter is done, it is incredible, and I remember why the PAINTER was the one creating that painting and not me.
When this happened to me again today, I realized God is the painter. Our lives are the canvas. If we allow Him, God will paint a story and purpose on the canvas of our lives. Layer upon layer, color upon color. Adding new things to our lives - sometimes things, circumstances, or people that we think are just randomly thrown into our "perfect picture" that appear to mess things up. But we have to trust the Painter, the Creator. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours.
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."
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