Common man Christianity

I sat down at a blank canvas the other day, and just stared at it. Wondering what I wanted to paint on it. It can be quite a feat to try and bring something out of your mind that you want to paint on the canvas. But after a few minutes I loaded some blue paint on the brush and started painting the sky. I worked the brush back and forth over the canvas and as the blue mixed with the white underneath a beautiful blue sky started to emerge before my eyes. Then I added some mountains, first one in the background, then one a little closer. Then a forest, a lake, some grass and bushes, and right there on a blank white canvas came a beautiful picture that had once been in my mind. It is amazing how that works.

When I paint I often think about how God must feel. He looks at us, His creation, and what He sees in our saved souls are a blank canvas, a place to work, a place to create, a place to bring life. Our lives are brush strokes of God, beautiful works of art that He is creating out of His mind.

I love watching Bob Ross, and one of the things that he says as he paints is that, “We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.” What you do when you have a “happy accident” is scrape the paint off and go right back over it.

I don’t know about you, but I have had plenty of “happy accidents” in my life where I have made the wrong decision, but the wonderful thing is that God can scrape that off, and put something new there, and we can live as if it never even happened.

God is a wonderful God, He is the “Author and Perfecter” of our faith. He is creating in us a new life, a life of beauty, a life of wonder, a life that looks like Jesus. The question that I have to ask you today is this, are you giving Him a clean canvas to work with? And when you have “happy accidents” are you letting Him scrape them away and repaint you according to His will? Let God work in your life and I promise you He will make something in you that you never knew could be.