Sometimes all I need is to see God working in someone else's life
When I am feeling a little off or discouraged to see someone I am praying for succeed makes me get excited
To see God using his children and to see those children living in his grace is so amazing
I was drinking coffee with a friend las night (well more like my best friend) and she was describing some of her prophetic art to me and I just got it, I completely understood what God was trying to say through it. And I am pretty sure she already knew exactly what it meant but I just had to explain it because it got me so excited. And I feel the need to share what this was. (I hope you don't mind, I just think you and your painting are awesome!)
So she had a painting and it was ugly so she kept trying to paint over it with white paint but the colours kept blending into this ugly grey. when she tried washing it off it just wouldn't work and she even tried to scrap it off with her nails but with no success. So eventually she got so frustrated she crumpled the paper up. But God told her to grab a fresh canvas, to put her canvas over top of it and imprint the ugliness onto to this fresh canvas. But not to stop there, once she had done this God said to paint all these beautiful colours over top and it completely hid the ugliness. And that is when it hit me. The ugly canvas was us, humanity, trying our hardest to cover our sins. Trying to earn forgiveness, that our works would be enough to cover all the dirt. But all it does is blends into grey, leaving us all the more frustrated, leaving our works nothing more than dirty rags. But that clean canvas, that is Jesus, that is him in all his perfection taking our sins on so that he can make them beautiful, so that when we surrender them he can take our sins and cover them with his amazing grace. I have always known this and live in this, but I just got so excited when I heard it in painted form and to realize that, that was what God was trying to say and he had revealed it to me.
I still get so excited when God reveals himself to me. As I have become better at listening, I have realized that God has always been speaking to me I just doubted my ability to hear him. But he is so much bigger than my doubt and so much patience to wait until the day when I am ready and willing to listen to him and to let him use me.
He is so much bigger then the attacks I am and will face as I grow closer to him and I need to realize that having an off week is nothing to God, he has been around forever and can wait that week until I am ready to stand up again. And I am able to stand up in his strength alone and not allow myself to be so easily defeated by some deception by some stupid enemy.
When I am feeling a little off or discouraged to see someone I am praying for succeed makes me get excited
To see God using his children and to see those children living in his grace is so amazing
I was drinking coffee with a friend las night (well more like my best friend) and she was describing some of her prophetic art to me and I just got it, I completely understood what God was trying to say through it. And I am pretty sure she already knew exactly what it meant but I just had to explain it because it got me so excited. And I feel the need to share what this was. (I hope you don't mind, I just think you and your painting are awesome!)
So she had a painting and it was ugly so she kept trying to paint over it with white paint but the colours kept blending into this ugly grey. when she tried washing it off it just wouldn't work and she even tried to scrap it off with her nails but with no success. So eventually she got so frustrated she crumpled the paper up. But God told her to grab a fresh canvas, to put her canvas over top of it and imprint the ugliness onto to this fresh canvas. But not to stop there, once she had done this God said to paint all these beautiful colours over top and it completely hid the ugliness. And that is when it hit me. The ugly canvas was us, humanity, trying our hardest to cover our sins. Trying to earn forgiveness, that our works would be enough to cover all the dirt. But all it does is blends into grey, leaving us all the more frustrated, leaving our works nothing more than dirty rags. But that clean canvas, that is Jesus, that is him in all his perfection taking our sins on so that he can make them beautiful, so that when we surrender them he can take our sins and cover them with his amazing grace. I have always known this and live in this, but I just got so excited when I heard it in painted form and to realize that, that was what God was trying to say and he had revealed it to me.
I still get so excited when God reveals himself to me. As I have become better at listening, I have realized that God has always been speaking to me I just doubted my ability to hear him. But he is so much bigger than my doubt and so much patience to wait until the day when I am ready and willing to listen to him and to let him use me.
He is so much bigger then the attacks I am and will face as I grow closer to him and I need to realize that having an off week is nothing to God, he has been around forever and can wait that week until I am ready to stand up again. And I am able to stand up in his strength alone and not allow myself to be so easily defeated by some deception by some stupid enemy.
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