Peter; doubter,
denier, disciple. Do you ever have Peter
days? To be honest, there are times I
doubt God's plan. I don't trust him the
way I should. I don't keep my eyes on Jesus. There are days I am confronted with issues and
challenges in conversation that should be biblically addressed, however I
remain silent. There are days I feel
close to God, like his best friend.
Last week
was a Peter week. However, just as Jesus lifted Peter from the waves of doubt, forgave
his denial and blessed him, God refreshed me.
Last
Saturday night all the interns and their mentors came together and had a
painting party. I would be the first to
say that my preferred art form is drawing stick figures but God used the
calmness and slow pace of painting to get me thinking.
As I painted
an African sunset I was reminded that even though our lives may look like they're
out of control, God is ultimately in control of the situation and makes it into
something beautiful.
The paint we
see on the palette runs together and gets very messy. The paint is not in
control, the painter is. God is painting
beautiful pictures of our life but we miss it when our focus is on the palette
instead of God.
We may never
see the canvas until the painting is finished but when we look at God he tells
us about each little thing that he is adding to our life and we can trust that
the finished product is better than we can imagine.
Below is the
finished painting. Mungu Anatawala is Swahili for "God He rules". God is ruler over all the earth and is
control of everything.
The next
morning a few of us went to the beach
and had an individual time of devotions.
As I read through Scripture and thought about all that I had been learning
that week I realized that I was allowing the business of life to take away from
what God was trying to teach me.
God brought
everything together with a thunderstorm.
As I sat on the beach a storm began rolling in over the coast. Dark clouds, lightning and thunder where visible in the distance,
the wind picked up and the waves became stronger.
However,
blue sky and white clouds graced the sky.
The contrast was quite obvious. We
had to leave the beach but God allowed me to see how this was a picture of my
life. At first something was missing
from the scene but God told me exactly what I needed to do.
"Be
still and know that I am God. I will be
exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" - Psalm
46:10
The
following song filled my heart as I walked away from a rough week but moved on in God's grace.
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