The week in between Christmas and New Year’s is my favorite week of the entire year. Typically, this has been a week for family vacation, but, not this year, so, I have still taken this week off from the regular routine and am taking the time to reflect, rejoice, reset, and renew. We have just come off the high of celebrating the birth of our savior, a good time to reflect on my life, did I live my life as Christ commanded? A time to rejoice, remembering all of the blessings and challenges and thanking Him for each. A time to reset, reset my attitude, my habits and my activities. And finally, renew, a time for reviewing what the Lord wants me to accomplish this year, renew my spirit and renew my resolve to live a life worthy to be called a masterpiece.
I enjoy the concept of a blank canvas, the ability to wake up each morning to create a masterpiece with my life that day.
22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
God’s mercies are new each morning and we all have the ability to create something beautiful. A few months ago, just weeks after the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a friend of mine sent me the following quote by A. W. Tozer, “When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were-He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.” Every day, every week and every year, I have the responsibility to become all that God wants me to be. A masterpiece in the making with all of the choices that I make throughout the day. I am reminded of the tapestry example. As you look at any tapestry, the front is beautiful, displays a perfectly put together picture. But, when you turn it over and look at the underside, it is a jumble of all colors of thread, no order, complete chaos. The picture is not recognizable, you can’t tell what it is by looking at the underside.
Looking at my life from the front side, I appear to be put together, but my underside is messy. How about yours? Is your life messy? We teach our children that life is about choices and choices have consequences. As I am preparing the tapestry, I have the glorious blessing of becoming the Masterpiece that God designed for me to become by making the right choices and reflecting Christ’s love in all that I do in 2018! The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (La 3:22–23). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
