It had been a tough day full of hurt and pain, so I went to the store and bought some paint and canvases and decided to try painting in my room to be alone with God. Not being much of an artist, I decided to try to give it my best attempt. I took a canvas and decided to try an abstract idea I'd found on Pintrest and started dropping globs of different colored paints around the canvas. I then took my brush and started swirling the paints, beginning to mix the colors, excitedly awaiting the result. Before long I was looking at a perfect representation of my mind on this particular day. The colors had begun to blend into a dull brown and there was excess paint everywhere. I sighed and thought, "Well that was a failure, I can't do anything right today." I started thinking about if anything could be done because I didn't want to throw out a perfectly good canvas, but I was out of ideas.
Finally I decided to grab some paper towel to wipe off as much paint as possible, figuring I could try to paint over what was left to hopefully create something new. I took a bunched up piece of paper towel and wiped from one side to another. I looked down at what was left and thought, "Huh, well what do you know! That looks neat!" I kept doing this until all the paint on the canvas was moving from right to left. I looked down and thought, "That turned out better than I thought! This will be the perfect background to what I want to paint!" My mess ended up being the beginning of a masterpiece!
It wasn't until the next morning when I was reflecting on this that I realized that this was yet another representation of how God works. We're a canvas that starts to think we can make a masterpiece on our own, so we start putting things together. Inevitably we all reach a point where we realize the mess we've made that forces us to throw up our hands and say, "I give up! I have no idea what I'm doing! This is a mess!". That's when God comes in and begins to work with the mess that we've left and His mighty hand works to create an incredible masterpiece that blows us away so we're left thinking, "God, you did that with me? With my mess? This is amazing!"
If you're finding yourself in a mess right now give it to God! He can't wait to show you the masterpiece He has for you!
"My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:1-2
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