The Master Artist

"Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good."

Genesis 1:31

"Set your gaze toward heaven. Your eyes will behold My glory. I have brought you through the testing time, and My heart rejoices over you. You see but a part of the picture, but I see the design in its complection. You cannot know what is in my mind and what I am creating with the materials of your life.

Only yield yourself into My hands. You need not make your own plans, for I am in control, and you would bring disaster by interference, just as the untrained use of the brush by a helpful child would ruin the canvas of the master artist.

So rest your soul, knowing that I have been at work in ways you have least suspected; for the picture in your thinking and the work I was engaged in were entirely different.

I make no idle strokes. What I do is never haphazard. I am never merely mixing colors out of casual curiosity. My every move is one of vital creativity, and every stroke is part of the whole.

Never be dismayed by apparent incongruity. Never be alarmed by a sudden dash of color seemingly out of context. Say only to your questioning heart, "It is the Infinite wielding His brush; I know He does all things well."

And in all that I do with a free hand, without interference, I can stand back and view the work and say, "It is good.""

-Jesus

(By the book: Come Away My Beloved by Frances J. Roberts)