upside down

So I was talking to one of my friends today and i remembered something that just love- an analogy.

Palm Sunday I was at my church and during the whole entire sermon there was this guy painting on the stage. i seriously could not pay attention to the sermon at all because i was trying to figure out what the heck this guy was painting. it was just not making sense at all. there was this big swoop and it looked like a little boat in a big wave or something and ahh it was driving me crazy. so i would keep thinking of different things it could be. and that occupied my thoughts during the whole like 35 minutes of my pastors sermon. however- at the end of the sermon the painter dude turned the painting upside down and it was a BEAUTIFUL painting of the profile of Jesus with a crown of thorns on His head.

Whoa. I was amazed. simply AHHmazed.

You know, that is kind of how our lives are. God is painting our lives. He is the Painter. and a lot of times we cannot figure out for the lives of us what He is painting. We do not understand what He is doing, when He is doing it, why some things happen, why other things don't happen and so on. . . but sometimes for us to understand the whole picture, or for God to make something beautiful in your life He has to turn your life upside down to reveal the beauty.

And after He turns our lives upside down- we can then see the Beauty He was creating in us.

wow.

So whenever you do not understand what is going on in your life and you feel that your life is getting turned upside down- wait - because something beautiful is on the way and God is just waiting to reveal that to you!


He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. -Pslam 147:3-5


{embrace the journey}