A few days ago as I was driving home, I heard the words “Let me paint the picture for you”. I then started envisioning what my future would be and what I felt needed to happen to get there. You see, this has been a very confusing and frustrating time as I haven’t been able to make the forward progression to what and where I feel I need to be. I have always thought about where I would be and have wondered what it would look like, but it has always lacked total clarity and I have not been content in the shaping process. It has always been in my strength to create the future. But this was my fallacy. It is not in my strength to create or paint the picture of my future. I am not the artist. God is. My life is his artwork. God doesn’t create with brush strokes, he creates with direction and conversation. To become the priceless work of art, we have to be obedient to his will. The really cool thing about this type of art is that it is not inanimate, but organic, or better yet a relational art form. In other words, we can ask why the artist shaped us this or that way and communicate our desires to the creator. The relationship we have with Jesus allows us to be content in the shaping process and walk it out together as Father and child.
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