The Masters Piece
At this very moment, I don’t know where to start.
I’m currently at the crossroads of wanting to share a testimony and yet waist-deep in the still and healing waters I so desperately needed. I am eternally grateful for the Shepherds’ impeccable leading. When I was ready to run past my hurt He had a better plan in mind; healing.
I think it’s important I shed light on the reality that I am both a masterpiece already made, though I have had to double-check a few times as I’ve become far too acquainted with the fire, and a piece the master is making.
This nuanced truth was difficult for me to wrap my mind around for the longest time because I kept looking at my story and questioning how He could ever make something worthy out of pages I would gladly trade or simply leave out altogether. I will never forget the Lords gentle words,
‘As long as you look through your eyes you will never truly understand what it is you are seeing.’
Perhaps you should read that again. In every case it’s not what we’re looking at, but through what are we perceiving?
Loss, lack or pain is easy to assume when ends come and our vantage point is full of what we expected to receive, but aren’t. It’s only through the perspective of a loving and purposeful God that we are able to see the beauty in endings, in gifts that have fulfilled their purpose.
What are you seeing in your life today? What things are you fighting to keep alive when your spirit knows the end of the thing has come, but your mind can’t comprehend what’s next? What things are you timidly looking at hesitant to step forward into because you know you’ll be introduced to a new version of yourself and the unknown shakes you?
Look up.
Hesitation, fear, doubt, guilt, shame, regret, and uncertainty are all experienced when your gaze is set on your limitations. Look up.
Lift your eyes so that the light of the Lord fills your vision, floods your soul, and consumes you until you remember who’s you are.
It is who’s you are that determines the truth of who you are and gives hope, no matter what turns you have to take, for where you are and where you are going.
Grace & Peace